| Question |
Answer |
| Language |
Our spoken, written or gestured words and the ways we combine them as we think and communicate |
| Phoneme |
In spoken language, the smallest destinctive sound unit |
| Morpheme |
In language, the smallest unit that carries meaning;may be a word or part of a word (such as a prefix) |
| Grammar |
A system of rules in a language that enables us to communicate with and understand others |
| Semantics |
Is the set of rules we use to derive meaning from morphemes, words, and even sentences |
| Syntax |
Refers to the rules we use to order words into sentences |
| Babbling Stage |
Begginning at age 3 to 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to household language |
| One-Word Stage |
The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2 during which a child speaks mostly in single words |
| Two-Word Stage |
Beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly in two-word statements |
| Telegraphic Speech |
Early speech stage in which the child speaks like a telegram- "go car" -using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting "auxiliary" words |
| Linguistic Relativity |
Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think |
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