Structure of Sentences
the meaning of words
semantics
how do Samoan's view infants language use
they do not see it as opportunities for meaningful exchange
This idea that people display knowledge of grammar greater than the amount of linguistic input received is known as
the poverty of stimulus
•the ability to recognize differences in sounds
speech perception
What does language allow us to do?
It allows us to share knowledge with others
words that provide the structure of sentences
functional categories
one word having many meanings
overextension
language has an innate set of structural rules independent of sensory input
universal grammar
one-word sentences
the holophrastic stage
What does research show about early language development?
language development peaks from 0-3 years old
Sentences are made of clauses and phrases, which in turn are made up of smaller clauses and phrases or words.
compositionality
one word have one specific meaning
underextension
the same grammatical process can apply more than once in their grammars that make it possible for them to produce sentences of indefinite length
Recursion
concrete objects grounded in everyday experience and tend to be
content words
Can toddlers learn language through technology? Why or why not?
No, children require motivation to create attention which leads to learning
Once a phrase has found its compliment, the grammar must have a mechanism that combines phrases.
merger
what was the purpose of jean berko's inflectional morphology study?
to determine if children can place accurate grammatical structures to imaginary objects
HASP stands for
High Amplitude Sucking Procedure
determiners, prepositions, conjunctions are examples of what kind of words
function words
What develops before language skills?
Cognitive skills such as auditory and visual centers of the brain
adding extra information to a sentence
adjunction
what are the 2 goals of data collection?
naturalness and representativeness
a procedure for testing a childs ability to distinguish differences in phonemes across languages is known as
the head turning procedure
using regular rules of grammar to irregular items
overgeneralization
how does language construct our understanding of the world?
Language makes understanding possible, but also limits our understanding of the the world