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Language Acquisition Speech Terms
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- 1Diphthongtwo vowel sounds that combine to make a single syllable
- 2Proto-wordsounds that are repeated with meaning and accompanied by gestures
- 3Copula Verba verb directly tied to an adjective, such as 'is' 'am' or 'get'
- 4Deixis"verbally pointing" - a word used in the context of the conversation like "this"
- 5virtuous errorsmistakes children make when developing language
- 6overgeneralisationwhen vocab is understood with too wide a meaning
- 7stative verba verb that describes a feeling or state of being
- 8dynamic verba verb describing an action
- 9egocentric speechstudied by piaget - children talk to themselves while they play because they have no internalised monologue
- 10vocativenouns or pronouns used to address someone
- 11Function Wordwords that serve a strict grammatical purpose
- 12positive reinforcementlanguage that is reinforced is repeated - behaviourist theory - Skinner
- 13Negative reinforcementstops certain words being said - not likely to be repeated
- 14overextension/underextensiontheorised by Eve Clark - words have narrower or wider meanings
- 15Hyponymywords sharing some form of relationship <3
- 16Hypernyma broad set of words like 'weather' or 'day'
- 17Hyponymwords within the Hypernym - 'rain' or 'wednesday'
- 18Inflectional Morphologyadding inflectional morphemes like affixes and suffixes
- 19Derivational Morphologyforming a new word using an old word as a 'root' e.g. happy = unhappy/happiness
- 20Mean Length Utterancea measure of linguistic productivity by seeing how long an average utterance is in an individual
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- A2 Level English Language A2 (Language Acquisition) Flashcards on Language Acquisition Speech Terms , created by 08aliell on 10/04/2015.
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