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25 Cards in this Set
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phoneme
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category of sounds our vocal apparatus produces
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morpheme
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smallest meaningful unit of speech
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syntax
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grammatical rules that govern how words are composed into meaningful strings
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extralinguistic info
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elements of comm that aren't part of the content of language ebut are critical to interpreting its meaning
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semantics
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meaning derived from words and sentences
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dialect
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language variation used by a group of peole who share geographic proximity or ethnic background
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babbling
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intentional vocalization that lacks specific meaning
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one word stage
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early period of language development when children use single word phrases to convey an entire thought
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key principle characteristic in word learning
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comprehension precedes production
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when do children start to produce their first words
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around their first birthday
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metalinguistic
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awareness of how language is structured
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homesign
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system of signs invented by deaf children of hearing parents who receive no language input
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generative
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allowing an infinite number of unique sentences to be created by combining words in novel ways
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nativist
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account of language acquisition that suggests children are born with some basic knowledge of how language works
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language acquisition device
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hypothetical organ in the brain in which nativists believe knowledge of syntax resides
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social pragmatics
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account of language acquisition that proposes children infer what words and sentences mean from context and social interaction
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linguistic determination
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view that all thought is represented verbally and that, as a result our language defines our thinking
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linguistic relativity
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view that characteristics of language shape our thought process
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whole word recognition
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reading strategy that involves identifying common words based on their appearance with out having to sound them out
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phonetic decomposition
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reading strategy that involves sounding out words by drawing correspondences between printed letters and sounds
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framing
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the way a question is formulated which can influence the decisions people make
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algorithm
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step by step learned procedure used to solve a problem
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mental set
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phenomenon of becoming stuck in a specific problem solving strategy, inhibiting our ability to generate alternatives
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functional fixedness
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difficulty conceptualizing that an object typically used for one purpose can be used for another
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