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Semanticity

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The extent to which a language can use symbols to transmit meaningful messages. Low semanticity: transmite meaningful messages but has limited selection. High semanticity: Can transmit meaningful messages in a specific and various ways

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Generatively:

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The ability to combine words or symbols of a language using rule of composition and syntax to communicate an almost infinite variety of ideas using a relatively small vocabulary

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Displacement

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Refers to the ability to use language to convey messages that are not tied to the immediate context but instead communicate information about events in the past/future/or at some other location

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Psycholinguistics

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A branch of cognitive psychology devoted to the study of the acquisition, comprehension and production of language

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Phonology

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The rules that govern the patterns of sounds that are used in a language

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Phonemes

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Basic distinctive speech sounds in a language that distinguish one word from another

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Morphemes

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The smallest units of meaning within a word

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Syntax/Syntactical Rules

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Grammatical rules of a particular language for combining words to form phrases/clauses/sentences

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Pragmatics

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The social rules of language that allow people to use language appropriately for different purposes and in different situations

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How comprehension works:

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RIAI
Recognize
Identify
Analyse
Interpret
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Prosody

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Rhythm, stress, intonation, speech

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Articulators

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Mouth structures that make speech sounds (jaw/tongue)

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Mondegreen

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A ward or phrase that results from mishearing something said or sung

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Coarticulation

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Speech sounds for words are not produced in a discrete sequence. Instead, the articulators are shaping multiple sounds at any moment in time, so that different instances of a particular phoneme are acoustically different, depending on the sounds preceding and following them

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Categorical perception

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The tendency of perceivers to disregard physical difference between stimuli and perceive them as the same such that a continuous change in a physical attribute is perceived not as continuous but as a discrete change at a category boundary

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Infant direct talk

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Exaggerated expressive verbal and nonverbal communication used with infants

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Overextend

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Generalize known words to a variety of contexts then is appropriate for those words

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Underextend

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Limit context for generalized words to a certain specific meaning

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Vocabulary splurt

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Period of strong language growth in children in which they are able to learn and use a large # of words

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Telegraphic speech

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Speech that sounds like a telegram, with only essential words, has words arranged in an order that makes sense and contains almost all nouns and verbs strung together in pairs

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Nativism

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The philosophical view that we are born with knowledge already present

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Interactionist

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A person who believes that language development results from interaction among multiple biological and social influences

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Convergent evolution

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The acquisition of the same biological trait in unrelated images

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Subsongs

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Unstructured, often rambling vocalization at low intensity heard mainly in young birds