A string of words that is grammatically complete with at least two components, subject and predicate
what is a sentence
100
Skills that children acquire more rapidly than other abilities
What is language
100
The age at which children generally master most basic language rules
What is 4 years old
100
The person who first introduced the Language Acquisition Device concept
Who is Noam Chomsky
100
The study of speech sounds, their physical properties, the way they are received and decided by the brain and the way they are produced
What is phonetics
200
A finite set of rules that could hypothetically produce an infinite number of utterances
What is generative grammar
200
The study of the structure and classification of words and the units that make up words
What is Morphology
200
Newly formed words
What is Neologisms
200
A mental dictionary, the vocabulary that one has stored in the brain
What is lexicon
200
the smallest units of meaning
What is morpheme
300
Any behavior that affects the behavior of others by the transformation of information
What is Communication
300
A contrast in complexity and rarity of sounds
What is markedness
300
A perceived unit of language that signals a difference in meaning when contrasted to another phoneme
What is a phoneme
300
a level of grammar that specifically refers to the arrangement of words and morphemes in the construction of sentences.
What is Syntax
300
A variation of a phoneme
What is allophone
400
The rationalist approach to grammar
What is Minimalism
400
An actual utterance that can be broken down by conventional methods of syntactic analysis
What is surface structure
400
Any trait that distinguishes one phoneme from another
What is distinctive feature
400
A highly abstract level of language that represents the basic meaning of a sentence
What is deep structure
400
The system involving phonemic differences, word order and phrase recognition that is the basis for one theory of the innateness of language acquisition
What is universal grammar
500
Characteristics of speech that can distinguish words, phrases or sentences that are otherwise identical in their phonetic segments
What is suprasegmentals
500
The theoretical area of hard wiring in the brains of children that propels them to acquire language
What is Language Acquisition Device
500
This proposes that the Language Acquisition Device ceases to function and the ability to acquire language with native fluency declines as childhood progresses, disappearing after puberty.
What is the critical period hypothesis
500
A major line of inquiry that has been developing inside generative grammar
What is the minimalist program
500
the universal innate ability that enables children to be able to construct a systematic grammar and generate phrases