The Territory
Intonation, stress, and speaking rate
What are paralinguistic cues?
The two requirements of a language sample
What are naturalness and representativeness?
Number of days within the date of conception that brain development begins
What is 18?
The timing of the formation of the inner ear
What is 20 weeks postconception?
An automatic, involuntary motor pattern
What is a reflex?
The approximate number of new words added to the English language daily
What is 6?
The focus of cross-language studies
What is universality?
A baby's cognitive structures used for processing incoming sensory information
What are schemes?
What the newborn is capable of auditorily discriminating
What are duration and loudness levels?
A reflex that does not disappear by 6 months
What is gagging?
A set of language rules
What is grammar?
The language scientist most interested in linguistic or cultural context
What is a sociolinguist?
The cognitive process whereby incoming information matches an existing scheme, and, therefore, can be incorporated into it
What is assimilation?
The age infants can discriminate their own language(s) from other languages with the same prosodic patterns
What is 5 months?
The result of internal changes or intrinsic brain activities in an infant
What are behavior-state changes?
A linguistic category that includes syntax, morphology, and phonology
What is language form?
What off-line test tasks can tell us
What is what children know?
The type of play demonstrated by using a spoon as a doll
What is symbolic play?
Reacting less strongly to successive presentations of a stimulus
What is habituation?
A verbal behavior that includes adultlike prosodic patterns
What is jargon?
The smallest grammatical unit
What is a morpheme?
The newest theory of language development
What is emergentism?
(True or False) Most theorists agree that linguistic growth drives cognitive growth
False
(True or False) Newborn babies can see at birth
False
The type of sounds that babies babble with
What are sounds from the native language, and some that are not