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| Why are pathologists interested in language acquisition? | 1. need to know what is typical in order to recognize what is atypical.
2. typical developmental provides a guide as to what to teach and when to teach it.
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| Why are pathologists interested in language acquisition? | 3. gives an idea about the best way to assess and teach language.
4. allows better communication with adults and children.
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| Language: | socially shared code or conventional system for representing concepts through the use of arbitrary symbols and rule-governed combinations of those symbols.
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| Components of language: | meaning, form and use
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| Meaning: | semantics-the study of the meaning system of language
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| Form: | morphology, syntax and phonology
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| Morphology: | rules that govern the use of morphemes in a language
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| Syntax | rules for how to combine words into phrases and sentences and how to transform sentences into other sentences
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| Phonology | study of the sound system of language. The sounds the language uses, as well as the rules for their combination.
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| Use | pragmatics, sociolinguistics and social communication
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| Pragmatics: | the study of language in context used as a communication tool that is used to achieve social ends
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| Sociolinguistics: | an approach to the study of language variation and adaptation which considers the ways social constructs (class, gender, role, status, etc.) impact upon language
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| Social Communication: | the verbal and nonverbal behaviors children display as they approach peers, maintain conversations, and resolve conflicts during peer interaction
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| Functionalist view of pragmatics: | viewed as the overall organizing aspect of language
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| Production: | refers to speaking; same as expression
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| Comprehension: | refers to understanding; same as reception
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| Speech: | the production of sounds
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| Language: | syntax, semantics, phonology, pragmatics
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| Prescriptive grammar: | prescribes what people SHOULD do when they use language
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| Descriptive grammar: | describes what people ACTUALLY do when they use language.
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| Dialect: | a variety of a language that is shared by a particular speech community (all variations of a language are dialects)
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| Competence: | the inner knowledge of language and all of its linguistic rules and structures
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| Performance: | any concrete act of talking or understanding language
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| Nature of language: | it is unique from other forms of communication and all languages share certain characteristics
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| The comparative method of historical linguistics: | makes it possible to compare a group of related languages and reconstruct a parent language
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| Properties of language: | Duality of patterning, productivity, displacement, semanticity
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| Displacement: | messages need not be tied to the immediate context
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| Productivity: | the capacity to say things that have never been said before
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| Duality of patterning: | the use of a finite set of elements, in various rearrangements, to convey an infinite set of messages- leads to displacement and productivity
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| Semanticity: | the ability to represent ideas, events, and objects symbolically
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