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| phoneme | smallest distinctive sound in spoken language (869 in human speech) |
| language | spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning |
| morpheme | smallest unit of language that carries meaning |
| grammar | sysstem of rules that enables communication |
| semantics | set of rules by which meaning is derived from morphemes; the study of meaning |
| syntax | rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences |
| babbling stage | speech stage occurring at about 4 months of age in which unfant spontaneously utters various sounds, unrelated to household language |
| one-word stage | stage in speech development occurring during second year of life |
| two-word stage | stage of speech development occurring at about 2 years of age |
| telegraphic speech | form of speech containing mostly nouns and verbs that follow rules of syntax |
| B.F. Skinner | believed language is learned |
| Noam Chomsky | believed language inborn |
| linguistic determination | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines how we think |
