language

real words

Babbling:: sounds using combo of vowels and consonants; combinations slowily become ________.

language is regular

language follows rules of grammar and syntax

language is arbitrary

words dont have a reason why represent the meaning

language is productive

there are limitless ways to use language

sapir-whorf hypothesis

language affects how we precieve the world;

morphemes

the smallest unit of sounds that contain information; can be combined to create words

phonemes

the smallest unit of sounds in a word

syntax

the rules that govern how words in a sentence are put together

semantics

the meaning of each word

babbling

sounds using combo of vowels and consonants; combinations slowily become real words

language explosion

1.5 to 6 years old

difficulty

when a person is not familiar with a language they are likely to have segmating between the words

positive

early speech segmentation skills showed a strong correlation with expressive vocabulary later in life

pragmatics

the udnerstanding + use of appropriate communication

overextension

errors that involve using a fairly specific word for a broader set of related items

underexterion

where a general term is used for only a very particular instance of an item

overrgularizations

syntactic errors that involve using a grammatical rule too broadly

holophrastic phase

when a child uses a single word to indicate the meaning of an entire sentence

transparent orthographies

consistent letter-tosound-correspondence, so that a given letter will always make the same sound