Structure of Sentences
Child Language Vocab
Theory
Child Language Acquisition
Video/Article
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the meaning of words

semantics

100

how do Samoan's view infants language use

they do not see it as opportunities for meaningful exchange

100

This idea that people display knowledge of grammar greater than the amount of linguistic input received is known as

the poverty of stimulus

100

•the ability to recognize differences in sounds

speech perception

100

LAD

Language Acquisition Device

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words that provide the structure of sentences

functional categories

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one word having many meanings

overextension

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language has an innate set of structural rules independent of sensory input

universal grammar

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one-word sentences

the holophrastic stage

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LASS

Language Acquisition Support System

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Sentences are made of clauses and phrases, which in turn are made up of smaller clauses and phrases or words.

compositionality

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one word have one specific meaning

underextension

300

the same grammatical process can apply more than once in their grammars that make it possible for them to produce sentences of indefinite length

Recursion

300

concrete objects grounded in everyday experience and tend to be 

content words

300

what is one main argument of nativism?

•1. all children acquire language easily and rapidly

•2. Adult speech is a poor model

•3. children rarely receive specific feedback or negative evidence of grammatical mistakes.

•4.Children create or generate a rule-based system

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Once a phrase has found its compliment, the grammar must have a mechanism that combines phrases.

merger

400

what was the purpose of jean berko's inflectional morphology study?

to determine if children can place accurate grammatical structures to imaginary objects

400

language is not the result of general learning mechanisms, but rather is an innate capacity

Nativism

400

determiners, prepositions, conjunctions are examples of what kind of words

function words

400

Language Acquisition is essentially a habit

behavioursim

500

adding extra information to a sentence

adjunction

500

what are the 2 goals of data collection?

naturalness and representativeness

500

processing is carried out by neurons that are connected to other neurons in a network

Information processing approach or

Parallel distributed processing

500

using regular rules of grammar to irregular items

overgeneralization

500

what is the role of CDS?

attracts attention to problematic forms and actively involves the child in conversation