Definitions
The process by children come to understand and communicate language
What is language development?
The study of words and other meaningful units of language like suffixes and prefixes
What is Morphology
Language is a behavior and is learnt like any other behavior with positive and negative reinforcement
What is the behavioral theory of language development?
The point in time when babies make sounds of happiness (particularly between 2-5 months)
What is cooing/ laughter?
Mother-to-baby language that overemphasizes specific aspects of language.
What is mothernese?
This is most generally, is about the meaning of sentences
What is Semantics?
The theory that humans are pre-programmed with the innate ability to develop language.
What is the nativist theory of language development?
Natural sounds that babies make (typically kids 0-2 months)
What is vegetative sounds?
The ability to understand what is being said.
What is receptive language?
This is is the smallest unit of sound that may cause a change of meaning within a language but that doesn’t have meaning by itself.
What is a phoneme?
The theorist responsible for the behavioral theory of language development.
Who is B.F Skinner?
The point in time when a child can make complete sentences.
What is complex utterance?
This term refers to the order or sequencing of words in language
What is syntax development?
This is the smallest unit of a word that provides a specific meaning to a string of letters
What is morpheme?
Conscious and reasoned thinking process which involves the processing of information, enhancing comprehension and learning information.
What is the cognitive theory of language development?
The stage of language development signaled by the emergence of words and symbolic communication.
What is linguistic development?
The ability to communicate through speech, signs or other forms.
What is expressive language?
This is the set of all the inflected forms of a single word.
What is lexeme?
The theory that children do not need linguistic constraints to learn words but rather they need social cognitive skills
What is the social pragmatic theory of language development?
The stage when a child learns to control the sounds he can produce.
What is prelinguistic development.