Phonological
Rules of language that govern the sound structure of syllables and words
Phonological development
The smallest meaningful units of language
morpheme
The type of statement that asks a question
interrogative
Learning and storage of the meanings of words
semantic development
Acquiring the rules of language that govern how language is used as a social tool
pragmatic development
word and syllable stress patterns or the rhythm of language
prosodic cues
Internalization of the rules of language that govern word structure
morphological development
Talk directed to children
child-directed speech
This consists of the total number of words a person can use or understand
lexicon
Instances when caregivers and infants focus on a mutual object
joint attention
An influence of phonological development related to how often children hear others speak their native language
phonological exposure
Morphemes that, when added to a root word, change the syntactic class and semantic meaning
derivational morphemes
Language disorders that are present at birth
developmental language disorders
This describes the how words are organized by the connective ties among them
semantic network
The intention behind every utterance
communication function
This describes a child’s internal representation of the sounds of their native language
phonetic inventory
A type of morpheme that can also be a word, such as like or made
free morpheme
Internalization of the rules of language that governs how words are organized into sentences
Syntactic development
A way of differentiating words by their semantic roles
semantic taxonomy
Internalized representations of the organizational structures of various events
schema
The ability to attend to the phonological units of speech through implicit or explicit analysis
phonological awareness
Variants of a single language
dialect
A measure of the average number of morphemes a child produces per utterance
Mean Length of Utterance
Situations in which a lot of contextual information is provided about a novel word
ostensive word-learning contexts
A theory that proposes that children’s experiences using language to engage with other people fosters their development of form and content
intentionality hypothesis