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
