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Chapter 9

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#1
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Language facilitates

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thinking, problem solving and decision making.

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Language is unique to

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humans and supports creative and progressive social interaction

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Language production

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the structured and convention expression of thoughts through words

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Speech

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the expression of language through sounds

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Language comprehension

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the process of understanding spoke, written or signed language

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6 characteristics of language production

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Phonology, Phoneme, Semantics, Morpheme,, Lexical meaning, Syntax

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Phonology is

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the study of how individual sounds or phonemes are used to produce language

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phoneme

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the smallest unit of sound in language, and individual sound

#9
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Semantics

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the study of how meaning in language is constructed of individual words and sentences

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Morpheme

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the smallest unit of a language that conveys meaning

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Lexical meaning

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dictionary meaning of a word

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Syntax

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the system for conveying meaning using words and order

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Pragmatics

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the practical aspects of language usage including speech pace, gesturing and body language

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6 Sequence of language learning

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Prevocal - Babbling - First Words - Telegraphic Speech - Pragmatics - Grammar

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Prevocal learning

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occurs at 2-4 months old. Babies distinguish all phonemes they will later use for language such as cooing

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Babbling

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6 months: meaningless experimental sounds

#17
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telegraphic specch

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2 years of age - two word sentences omitting all but essential words

#18
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three theories of how language develops

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nature, nurture, nature and nurture

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Chomsky theorized

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children are genetically programmed at birth to learn language

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Skinner theorized about language:

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language is entirely learned because of rewards from certain words and sounds

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Interactionalist perspective

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both theories of nature and nurture are important

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Critical period

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stage when an individual is particularly open to specific learning

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Sensitive Period

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stage in development wen an individual can best acquire specific skills like language. Before 13

#24
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Child directed speech

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high pitched voice