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Language Development

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infinite generativity   ability to produce an endless number of meaningful sentences using a finite set of words and rules  
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phonology   how sounds are used and combined  
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phoneme   the smallest unit of sound  
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morphology   the rules for combining morphemes  
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morphemes   the smallest units of meanings  
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syntax   the ways words are arranged to form acceptable phrases and sentences  
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semantics   the meanings of words and sentences  
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pragmatics   the appropriate use of language in context  
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telegraphic speech   the use of short and precise words without grammatical markers  
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whole language approach   reading should be whole and meaningful  
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basic skills and phonics approach   reading should involve simplified materials  
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dialect   variety of language distinguished by vocabulary, grammar, or pronunciation  
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receptive vocabulary   words the child understands  
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spoken vocabulary   words the child uses  
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fast mapping   a process that helps to explain how young children learn the connection between a word and its referent so quickly  
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subtractive bilingualism   when immigrant children go from being monolingual in their home language to bilingual in that language and in English, only to end up monolingual speakers of English  
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bilingual education   teaching an academic subject to immigrant children in their native language while slowly teaching English  
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Broca's area   an area of the brain's left frontal lobe that is involved in producing words  
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Wernicke's area   an area of the brain's left hemisphere that is involved in language comprehension  
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aphasia   a loss or impairment of language processing resulting from damage to Broca's area or Wernicke's area  
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damage to Broca's area   difficulty producing words correctly  
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damage to Wernicke's area   poor comprehension and fluent yet incomprehensible speech  
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language acquisition device (LAD)   Chomsky's term that describes a biological endowment that enables the child to detect certain features and rules of language, including phonology, syntax, and semantics  
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child-directed speech   language spoken in a higher pitch than normal, with simple words and sentences  
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recasting   rephrasing a statement that a child has said, perhaps turning it into a question, or restating a child's immature utterance in the form of a fully grammatical sentence  
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expanding   restating, in a linguistically sophisticated form, what a child has said  
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labeling   identifying the names of objects  
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what do all human languages have?   infinite generativity and organizational rules  
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what sound sequence do babies go through in the first year?   crying, cooing, and babbling  
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overextension   when children apply a word to objects that are inappropriate for the word's meaning  
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underextension   when children apply a word too narrowly  
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what is an example of telegraphic speech?   two-word utterances  
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what is Berko's card experiment?   kids were shown words that don't exist but they were able to apply morphological rules  
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the alphabetic principle   that the letters of the alphabet represent sounds of the language  
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what is the behavioral view of language?   that language is a learned skill, but this is not a good explanation  
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how can you enhance a child's acquisition of language?   use child directed speech, recasting, expanding, and labeling  
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