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| Question | Answer |
| Diphthong | two vowel sounds that combine to make a single syllable |
| Proto-word | sounds that are repeated with meaning and accompanied by gestures |
| Copula Verb | a verb directly tied to an adjective, such as 'is' 'am' or 'get' |
| Deixis | "verbally pointing" - a word used in the context of the conversation like "this" |
| virtuous errors | mistakes children make when developing language |
| overgeneralisation | when vocab is understood with too wide a meaning |
| stative verb | a verb that describes a feeling or state of being |
| dynamic verb | a verb describing an action |
| egocentric speech | studied by piaget - children talk to themselves while they play because they have no internalised monologue |
| vocative | nouns or pronouns used to address someone |
| Function Word | words that serve a strict grammatical purpose |
| positive reinforcement | language that is reinforced is repeated - behaviourist theory - Skinner |
| Negative reinforcement | stops certain words being said - not likely to be repeated |
| overextension/underextension | theorised by Eve Clark - words have narrower or wider meanings |
| Hyponymy | words sharing some form of relationship <3 |
| Hypernym | a broad set of words like 'weather' or 'day' |
| Hyponym | words within the Hypernym - 'rain' or 'wednesday' |
| Inflectional Morphology | adding inflectional morphemes like affixes and suffixes |
| Derivational Morphology | forming a new word using an old word as a 'root' e.g. happy = unhappy/happiness |
| Mean Length Utterance | a measure of linguistic productivity by seeing how long an average utterance is in an individual |
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