Language Development
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- Q1A set of spoken, written, or signed words and the way we combine them to communicate meaninglanguage30s
- Q2Short, distinctive sound unitsPhonemes30s
- Q3The smallest units that carry meaningPhonemesMorphomesMorphemesLargephemes30s
- Q4A system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand othersGrammar30s
- Q5The ability to understand what's being said both to, and about usReceptive languageComprehension languageUnderstandingCommunicative language30s
- Q6Ability to produce wordsCommunicative languageSpeakingProductive languageTalking30s
- Q7Beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household languageBabbling30s
- Q8The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single wordsOne wordEarly speechBabbling6 months old30s
- Q9Beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly in two-word statementsLate speechEarly speechTwo-wordOne-word30s
- Q10Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns and verbsOne wordTelegraphic speechLate speechNoun speech30s
- Q11Natural learning through reinforcementInnate learning30s
- Q12States that all human languages contain nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and humans are born with an innate ability to acquire language, and even a genetic predisposition to learn grammatical rulesUniversal grammar30s
- Q13A neurological impairment of language, usually caused by left-hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing understanding)Aphasia30s
- Q14Involved in production of speechBroca's areaWernicke's area30s
- Q15Involved in the comprehension of languageBroca's areaWernicke's area30s