Speech Perception
Within weeks of birth, infants can distinguish between these basic speech sounds.
What are phonemes?
Infants around 4–5 months can recognize this personal word.
What is their name?
This stage of language production appears around 2 months and consists mainly of vowel sounds.
What is cooing?
Most children produce their first words at approximately this age.
What is one year old?
Saying "runned" instead of "ran" demonstrates this tendency.
What is overregularization?
By about 4 months, infants can tell the difference between these.
What are different languages?
At about 7 months, infants can match emotional tone with these visual cues.
What are facial expressions?
Around 6 months, infants begin producing repeated consonant-vowel combinations in this stage.
What is babbling?
Using context to infer a word's meaning after only one or two exposures is called this.
What is fast mapping?
This refers to combining words into sentences and understanding relationships among them.
What is syntax?
According to Werker and Tees, infants gradually reorganize their perceptual categories to focus on distinctions important in their own ______.
What is language environment?
From about 9 months onward, infants begin understanding these broad categories of meaning.
What are semantic concepts?
By about 10 months, an infant's babbling begins to resemble this.
What is the infant's native language?
Calling all furry animals "kitty" is an example of this language error.
What is overextension?
Knowing not to tell someone they are fat because it is socially inappropriate demonstrates this aspect of language.
What is pragmatics?