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14 Cards in this Set
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language
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our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning
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phoneme
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the smallest distinctive sound unit
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morpheme
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the smallest unit that carries meaning;may be a word or a part of a word
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grammar
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in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others
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semantics
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the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; study of meaning
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syntax
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the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language
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babbling stage
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4 months to 1 year
stage of speech development when infants utter sounds unrelated to the household language |
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one-word stage
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1 year - 2 year
stage when a child speaks in single words |
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two-word stage
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2 years
the stage in which a child speaks in two word statements |
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telegraphic speech
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early speech where children speak like telegrams
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aphasia
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impairment of language
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broca's areas
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controls language expression & muscle movements incolced in speech
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Wernicke's area
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controls language reception
involved in comprehensions and expression |
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linguistic determinism
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Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think
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