The stage at which the phonetic inventory is being reduced. Before babbling stage.
What is the pre-linguistic stage?
100
A speech disorder characterized by long pauses and agrammatism, where meaning is usually intact.
What is Broca's aphasia?
200
The natural, unconscious process of language development in humans, contrasted with Language Learning.
What is language acquisition?
200
"The form of the signal and the meaning are not usually related."
What is arbitrariness?
200
Rules of how sounds are combined in a language.
What is phonology?
200
The stage at which we expect holophrastic speech, with nouns mostly and some verbs, naming one thing at a time.
What is the one word stage?
200
A chromosomal disorder, sometimes resulting in highly social behavior, musical affinity, and sensitive hearing.
What is Williams Syndrome?
300
The unconscious knowledge of grammar that allows us to produce and understand a language.
What is linguistic competence?
300
"The ability to talk about things remote in time and space."
What is displacement?
300
Rules of word formation in a language.
What is morphology?
300
The stage at which, according to Pinker, "all hell breaks loose."
What is the late multi-word stage?
300
The bundle of neurons connecting the two hemispheres of the brain. Sometimes cut to relieve severe seizures.
What is the corpus callosum.
400
The set of grammatical rules produced by someone who claims some authority over how the language should be. Contrasted with descriptive grammar.
What is prescriptive grammar?
400
"The ability to produce and understand new language structures."
What is productivity?
400
Rules of sentence formation in a language.
What is syntax?
400
The stage at which Consonant/Vowel and/or Vowel sounds are made repeatedly.
What is babbling?
400
The condition the patient who produced this speech likely has: "I can't tell you what it is, but I know what it is, but I don't know where it is. But I don't know what it's under..."
What is Wernicke's Aphasia
500
The set of linguistic rules common to all languages which is hypothesized to be part of human cognition.
What is universal grammar?
500
"Signals are made up of smaller parts, which themselves are discrete."
What is discreteness?
500
Rules governing how meaning is expressed in a language.
What is semantics?
500
The stage at which the child is expected to produce two word telegraphic phrases.
What is the two word stage?
500
The hemisphere responsible for language processing in most people.