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(Language structure, and language development)

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