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The amazing fact about language explosion (happens after 1.5 years of life)
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The baby human learns a minimum of 1 new work every 90 minutes!
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5 characteristics of what makes a language
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Semanticity, arbitrariness, generativity, displacement, duality
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Semanticity
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Language represents objects, actions, events & ideas via the use of symbols (can be verbal or non-verbal)
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Arbitrariness
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Uses symbols not related to concepts they represent
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Generativity
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Using finite set of words in our vocab, we can put together infinite number of sentences & ideas; express ideas never heard before
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Displacement
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Can talk about past, future, anything out of immediate context
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Duality
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Language is represented at 2 levels (sounds & meaning)
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Language comprehension (comes before production)
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Refers to understanding what others say
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Language production
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Refers to actually speaking to others
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Phonological development
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Acquisition of knowledge about phonemes, the elementary units of sound that distinguish meaning
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Semantic development
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Learning the system for expressing meaning in a language, beginning with morphemes, the smalest unit of meaning in a language
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Syntactic development
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Learning the syntax or rules for combining words
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Pragmatic development
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Acquiring knowledge of how language is used, which includes understanding a variety of conversational conventions
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Phonology
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Sounds we make - (english has 45 of about 200 sounds) babies come into world being able to hear all 200.
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Phonemic perception
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Beginning at 7 months we lose ability to discriminate btw sounds in any language. by end of 1st year most kids focus only on sounds in their language
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