Structure of Sentences
the meaning of words
semantics
studies conducted on a small group of participants over an extended period of time are known as
observational studies
This idea that people display knowledge of grammar greater than the amount of linguistic input received is known as
the poverty of stimulus
•the ability to recognize differences in sounds
speech perception
A language cannot be acquired with native competence beyond a certain age.
critical period hypothesis
words that provide the structure of sentences
functional categories
one word having many meanings
overextension
language has an innate set of structural rules independent of sensory input
universal grammar
one-word sentences
the holophrastic stage
What are the two requirements for infants to learn the phonemes of their native language?
1. Listen intently 2. Taking statistics
Sentences are made of clauses and phrases, which in turn are made up of smaller clauses and phrases or words.
compositionality
one word have one specific meaning
underextension
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
concrete objects grounded in everyday experience and tend to be
content words
Can toddlers learn language through technology? Why or why not?
No, children require human interaction
Once a phrase has found its compliment, the grammar must have a mechanism that combines phrases.
merger
what was the purpose of jean berko's inflectional morphology study?
to determine if children can place accurate grammatical structures to imaginary objects
HASP stands for
High Amplitude Sucking Procedure
determiners, prepositions, conjunctions are examples of what kind of words
function words
At what age is the child’s linguistic ability restricted to discriminating only the sounds of their native language?
10-12 months
adding extra information to a sentence
adjunction
what are the 2 goals of data collection?
naturalness and representativeness
a procedure for testing a childs ability to distinguish differences in phonemes across languages is known as
the head turning procedure
using regular rules of grammar to irregular items
overgeneralization
In what way is the social brain involved in the process of language acquisition?
It takes a human being for babies to take statistics