A system of symbols that we use in thinking, solving, problems, and communication.
What is language?
100
An alternate term to describe the built-in brain process that makes learning the rules of grammar easy.
What is innate?
100
Another term used to describe a different period when children show new or more complex language skills.
What is a stage?
100
The part of the body that is genetically programmed to speak and understand?
What is the brain?
100
A multifaceted process involving word recognition, comprehension, fluency, and motivation.
What is reading?
200
An arbitrary pairing between a sound or symbol and a meaning.
What is a word?
200
The actual wording of a sentence as it is spoken.
What is surface structure?
200
Making one syllable sounds.
What is babbling?
200
Genetically programmed physiological features, neurological features and developmental factors that contribute to speech and language skills.
What are innate language factors?
200
A multisensory process that facilitates learning language.
What is music?
300
A set of rules that specifies how we combine words to form meaningful phrases and sentences.
What is grammar or syntax?
300
The area of the brain that is pre-wired to combine sounds into words.
What is Broca's area?
300
To attract and hold an infant's attention, aid in comprehension, and facilitate language development is it's function.
What is parentese?
300
The time from infancy to adolescence when language is easiest to learn.
What is the critical language period?
300
Changing the letters of each word into sounds.
What is vocalizing?
400
The basic sounds of consonants and vowels.
What are phonemes?
400
That which allows humans to combine nouns, verbs and objects in endless meaningful sentences.
What is mental grammar?
400
The ability to comprehend/understand words.
What is receptive vocabulary?
400
The interactions children have with people who provide feedback/stimulation that rewards and encourages language development.
What are environmental language factors?
400
An unexpected difficulty learning to read despite intelligence, motivation and education.
What is dyslexia?
500
Specify how we know the meanings of words or phrase in various contexts.
What is semantics?
500
A linguist who designed two revolutionary principles of language that states that all languages share a common universal grammar and that children inherit a mental program to learn this universal grammar.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
500
Is applying a grammatical rule to cases where it should not be used.
What is overgeneralization?
500
Learning a set of abstract symbols, using abstract symbols, learning complex rules of grammar, and generating an endless number of meaningful sentences.