Burkhead - Language
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ecburkhead on January 17, 2010
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Definitions from Ch. 10 related to Language.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 language | our spoken, written, or gestured words and the ways we comnbine them to communicate |
| phoneme | in spoke lang., the smallest distinctive sound unit |
| morpheme | in language, smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or part of a word |
| grammar | system of rules in a language that enables us to communicate and understand others |
| semantics | the set of rules by which we derive meaning form morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning |
| syntax | the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language |
| babbling stage | @ 3-4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language |
| two-word stage | beginning about age 2, tthe stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements. Telegraphic Speech |
| telegraphic speech | early speech stage in which the child speaks like a telegram, using mostly nouns and verbs, ommiting "auxilary words |
| linguistic relativity | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think |
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