Language Development
The complex and dynamic system of conventional symbols used in various modes for thought and communication.
What is Language?
Words that differ by only one phoneme.
What are minimal pairs?
These scientists study the structures and functions of the nervous system related to language.
What are neurolinguists?
The type of research where data is compiled from multiple individuals on a certain aspect of language development and chart the ages of typical milestones.
What is normative research?
Refers to the rules of language governing the MEANING of words and word combinations.
What is Semantics?
The smallest units of language.
What are morphemes?
An individual's ability to attend to the phonological units of speech through implicit or explicit analysis.
What is phonological awareness?
The coating that provides a sheath for neurons and contributes to the rapid relay of impulses.
What is myelin?
Behaviors that are reinforced become strengthened and behaviors that are punished become suppressed.
What is operant conditioning?
Refers to the rules governing the internal organization of sentences.
What is SYNTAX?
This term means users of a language abide by accepted rules.
What is conventional?
The first appearing grammatical morpheme - at about 2 years of age.
What is -ing?
The number of pairs of Cranial Nerves.
What is 12?
Noam Chomsky popularized this term describing grammatical rules and constraints consistent with all world languages.
What is Universal Grammar?
Provides real time mapping showing where in the brain speech perception occurs.
This is the neuromuscular process by which humans turn language into a sound signal and transmit it thought the air or other medium.
What is Speech?
The calculation that provides an estimation for the syntactic complexities of children's utterances.
What is Mean Length of Utterance?
The area in the left temporal lobe which is critical for language comprehension.
What is Wernicke's area?
The difference between a child's actual development and potential development.
What is Zone of Proximal Development?
The promptness, contingency, and appropriateness of caregiver responses to children's bid for communication through words or other means.
What is responsiveness?
The rules that govern language use for social purposes and is a synonym for social communication.
What is pragmatics?
This type of sentence makes a statement.
What is declarative sentence?
The term pertaining to the malleability of the Central Nervous System.
What is neural plasticity?
The process through which adults provide children with and enhanced language-learning environment.
What is enrichment?
The time frame of development during which a particular aspect of neuroanatomy underlying a given sensory or motor capacity undergoes growth.
What is Sensitive Period?