| Question | Answer |
| allomorph usage | based on speech sound, voicing, and manner |
| phonological | have equivalent meaning but used at different times, ex. a & an |
| morphological | adjentive form (artist, teacher)& prefixes (unknown) |
| syntactic | sentence structure, relate to pronouns, hard to use
ex. they, we, he, she, i, their |
| first meaningful speech | single word utterances, follow adult speech |
| appear first | nouns |
| appear second | modifiers & verb-like words |
| first word categories | food, animals, toys, people |
| MIDLEVEL OF GENERALITY | tend to go with middle term
ex. vehicle->cars->mustang |
| performatives | single word utterances produced while in action |
| holophrases | single word utterances, 4 functions: declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamatory |
| declarative | a statement, not punctuating, punctuate thru paralinguistics, no syntax |
| imperative | command, punctuate with paralinguistics |
| interrogative | to question, no syntax |
| exclamatory | excited, when sees parent or ouch or no, more exaggerated paralnguistics |
| early language usage | discuss objects, events, relations, |
| progressive adaptation | probably inaccurate meaning, limited cognitive knowledge,
ex. dog = 4 legs
apply to cows |
| lexical growth | starts slow and dramatically increases at 18-24 months (vocabulary explosion) |
