M6L4 Language Development

our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning

• Language
• Nativist theory of language acquisition
• Overgeneralization/overregularization
• surface structure

in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit

• Phoneme
• Universal grammar
• Language acquisition device
• deep structure

in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning

• Morpheme
• Critical period / sensitive period
• Nativist theory of language acquisition
• Babbling stage

in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others

• Grammar
• Aphasia
• Universal grammar
• One-word stage / holophrastic stage

Meaning of words and sentences

• Semantics
• Linguistic determinism
• Critical period / sensitive period
• Two-word stage / telegraph stage

Sentence structure

• Syntax
• Linguistic influence
• Aphasia
• Overgeneralization/overregularization

babies spontaneously uttering a variety of words, such as ah-goo

• Babbling stage
• Phoneme
• Noam Chomsky
• Universal grammar

About 12 months - child uses single word to stand for a whole expression

• One-word stage / holophrastic stage
• Morpheme
• Language
• Critical period / sensitive period

learner speaks in short sentences, like a telegraph

• Two-word stage / telegraph stage
• Grammar
• Phoneme
• Aphasia

misapplication of grammar rules

• Overgeneralization/overregularization
• Semantics
• Morpheme
• Linguistic determinism