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16 Cards in this Set
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Semantic development
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Learning meanings of words and of combinations of words.
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Grammar
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The rules of a given language for the sequencing of words in a sentence and the ordering of parts of words.
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Fast mapping
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The way in which children quickly form an idea of the meaning of an unfamiliar word they hear in a familiar and highly structured social interaction.
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Syntactic bootstrapping
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Use of knowledge of grammar to figure out the meanings of new words.
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Inner speech
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According to Vygotsky, the internalization of egocentric speech that occurs during early childhood and allows individuals to mentally plan activities and solve problems.
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Infant-directed speech
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Speech that adults use with infants, characterized by high pitch, exaggerated intonation, clear boundaries between meaningful parts of utterance, and simplified vocabulary. Also known as motherese or baby-talk.
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Pragmatic development
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Learning the conventions that govern the use of language in particular social contexts.
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Morpheme
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The smallest unit of meaning in the words of a language.
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Overextension
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The error of applying verbal labels too broadly.
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Underextension
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The error of applying verbal labels too narrowly.
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Conversational acts
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Actions that achieve goals through language.
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Protoimparetives
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Early conversational acts whose purpose is to get another person to do something.
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Protodeclaratives
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Early conversational acts whose purpose is to establish joint attention and sustain a dialogue.
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Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
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Chomsky's term for an innate language-processing capacity that is programmed to recognize the universal rules that underlie any particular language that a child might hear.
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Language Acquisition Support System (LASS)
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Bruner's term for the patterned behaviors and formatted events within which children acquire language. It is the environmental compliment to the innate, biologically constituted LAD.
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Phonological development
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Learning to segment speech into meaningful units of sound.
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