Chapter 9 Student Resources

Flashcards

Key Terms

Receptive language

the comprehension or understanding of language (e.g., the speech of others).

Productive language

language expression in the form of speaking or writing.

Phonology

the system of sounds within any given language.

Semantics

the meanings expressed by words and sentences.

Syntax

grammatical rules governing sentence structure and word order within sentences.

Pragmatics

the rules involved in ensuring that what is said fits the current situation.

Telegraphic speech

children’s early speech resembling a telegram in that much information is contained in two (or less often) three words.

Grammatical morphemes

prepositions, suffixes, and so on that help to indicate the grammatical structure of sentences.

Over-regularisation

the application of a grammatical rule to situations in which it is incorrect.

Linguistic universals

features (e.g., preferred word orders; the distinction between nouns and verbs) found in the great majority of the world’s languages.

Recursion

turning simple sentences into longer and more complex ones by placing one or more additional clauses within them.

Child-directed speech

the short, simple, slowly-spoken sentences used by mothers, fathers, or other caregivers when talking to young children.

Lexigrams

symbols used to represent words in studies on communication.