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137 relations: American Sign Language, Anat Ninio, Andrew Radford (linguist), Animal communication, Animal language, Aphasia, B. F. Skinner, Behaviorism, Black box, Brian MacWhinney, Broca's area, Catherine E. Snow, Cerebral cortex, Charles F. Hockett, Chunking (psychology), Cochlear implant, Cognition, Cognitive linguistics, Competition model, Connectionism, Constituent (linguistics), Context (language use), Corrective feedback, Creole language, Critical period, Developmental psychology, Elissa L. Newport, Elizabeth Bates, Ellen Markman, Emergentism, Empirical research, Empiricism, Eric Lenneberg, Evolutionary linguistics, Evolutionary psychology of language, Feral child, First language, Fis phenomenon, FOXP2, Frontal lobe, Functional contextualism, Functional magnetic resonance imaging, Functional neuroimaging, Functional theories of grammar, Generative grammar, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Gestures in language acquisition, Glossary of language education terms, Grammar, Grammar induction, ..., Heuristic, Infant, Inferior frontal sulcus, Jean Piaget, Jenny Saffran, Jerome Bruner, Jerry Fodor, John Locke, KE family, Kuniyoshi Sakai, Language, Language acquisition by deaf children, Language acquisition device, Language attrition, Language delay, Language deprivation experiments, Language development, Latent semantic analysis, Learning, Lectures on Government and Binding, Lev Vygotsky, Lexical item, List of children's speech corpora, List of language acquisition researchers, Literacy, Machine learning, Manual babbling, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Melissa Bowerman, Mental lexicon, Merge (linguistics), Metalinguistic awareness, Michael Tomasello, Minimalist program, Morphology (linguistics), Natural language processing, Nature versus nurture, Neuroscience, Noam Chomsky, Non-native speech database, Noun, Operant conditioning, Operator (linguistics), Origin of language, Passive speaker (language), Phoneme, Phonology, Plato, Positron emission tomography, Poverty of the stimulus, Prelingual deafness, Premotor cortex, Principles and parameters, Psychological nativism, Recursion, Regular and irregular verbs, Reinforcement, Relational frame theory, ROBO1, Rudolf Carnap, Science, Second language, Second-language acquisition, Second-language attrition, Semantics, Sentence (linguistics), Sign language, Social interactionist theory, Speech perception, Speech production, Speech repetition, Spoken language, Statistical learning theory, Syllable, Syntactic category, Syntactic Structures, Syntax, Temporal lobe, Thomas Hobbes, Universal grammar, Verbal Behavior, Vocabulary, Vocabulary development, Vyākaraṇa, Wernicke's area, Word, Zone of proximal development. Expand index (87 more) »
American Sign Language
American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.
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Anat Ninio
Anat Ninio (ענת ניניו; born August 10, 1944) is a professor emeritus of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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Andrew Radford (linguist)
Andrew Radford is a British linguist known for his work in syntax and child language acquisition.
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Animal communication
Animal communication is the transfer of information from one or a group of animals (sender or senders) to one or more other animals (receiver or receivers) that affects the current or future behavior of the receivers.
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Animal language
Animal languages are forms of non-human animal communication that show similarities to human language.
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Aphasia
Aphasia is an inability to comprehend and formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions.
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B. F. Skinner
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990), commonly known as B. F. Skinner, was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.
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Behaviorism
Behaviorism (or behaviourism) is a systematic approach to understanding the behavior of humans and other animals.
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Black box
In science, computing, and engineering, a black box is a device, system or object which can be viewed in terms of its inputs and outputs (or transfer characteristics), without any knowledge of its internal workings.
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Brian MacWhinney
Brian James MacWhinney (born August 22, 1945) is a Professor of Psychology and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Broca's area
Broca's area or the Broca area or is a region in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere, usually the left, of the hominid brain with functions linked to speech production.
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Catherine E. Snow
Catherine Elizabeth Snow (born December 14, 1945) is an educational psychologist and applied linguist.
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Cerebral cortex
The cerebral cortex is the largest region of the cerebrum in the mammalian brain and plays a key role in memory, attention, perception, cognition, awareness, thought, language, and consciousness.
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Charles F. Hockett
Charles Francis Hockett (January 17, 1916 – November 3, 2000) was an American linguist who developed many influential ideas in American structuralist linguistics.
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Chunking (psychology)
In cognitive psychology, chunking is a process by which individual pieces of information are bound together into a meaningful whole (Neath & Surprenant, 2003).
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Cochlear implant
A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss in both ears.
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Cognition
Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".
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Cognitive linguistics
Cognitive linguistics (CL) is an interdisciplinary branch of linguistics, combining knowledge and research from both psychology and linguistics.
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Competition model
The competition model is a psycholinguistic theory of language acquisition and sentence processing, developed by Elizabeth Bates and Brian MacWhinney (1981).
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Connectionism
Connectionism is an approach in the fields of cognitive science, that hopes to represent mental phenomena using artificial neural networks.
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Constituent (linguistics)
In syntactic analysis, a constituent is a word or a group of words that functions as a single unit within a hierarchical structure.
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Context (language use)
In semiotics, linguistics, sociology and anthropology, context refers to those objects or entities which surround a focal event, in these disciplines typically a communicative event, of some kind.
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Corrective feedback
Corrective feedback is a frequent practice in the field of education and in learning generally.
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Creole language
A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages at a fairly sudden point in time: often, a pidgin transitioned into a full, native language.
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Critical period
In developmental psychology and developmental biology, a critical period is a maturational stage in the lifespan of an organism during which the nervous system is especially sensitive to certain environmental stimuli.
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Developmental psychology
Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why human beings change over the course of their life.
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Elissa L. Newport
Elissa Lee Newport is a Professor of Neurology and Director of the Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery at Georgetown University.
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Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates (July 26, 1947 – December 13, 2003) was a Professor of psychology and cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego.
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Ellen Markman
Ellen Markman is Lewis M. Terman Professor of Psychology at Stanford University.
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Emergentism
In philosophy, emergentism is the belief in emergence, particularly as it involves consciousness and the philosophy of mind, and as it contrasts (or not) with reductionism.
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Empirical research
Empirical research is research using empirical evidence.
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Empiricism
In philosophy, empiricism is a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience.
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Eric Lenneberg
Eric Heinz Lenneberg (19 September 1921 – 31 May 1975) was a linguist and neurologist who pioneered ideas on language acquisition and cognitive psychology, particularly in terms of the concept of innateness.
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Evolutionary linguistics
Evolutionary linguistics is a subfield of psycholinguistics that studies the psychosocial and cultural factors involved in the origin of language and the development of linguistic universals.
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Evolutionary psychology of language
Evolutionary psychology of language is the study of the evolutionary history of language as a psychological faculty within the discipline of evolutionary psychology.
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Feral child
A feral child (also called wild child) is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, where they have little or no experience of human care, behavior, or, crucially, of human language.
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First language
A first language, native language or mother/father/parent tongue (also known as arterial language or L1) is a language that a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.
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Fis phenomenon
Fis phenomenon is a phenomenon of child language acquisition that demonstrates that perception of phonemes occurs earlier than the ability of the child to produce those phonemes.
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FOXP2
Forkhead box protein P2 (FOXP2) is a protein that, in humans, is encoded by the FOXP2 gene, also known as CAGH44, SPCH1 or TNRC10, and is required for proper development of speech and language.
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Frontal lobe
The frontal lobe, located at the front of the brain, is the largest of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the mammalian brain.
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Functional contextualism
Functional contextualism is a modern philosophy of science rooted in philosophical pragmatism and contextualism.
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow.
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Functional neuroimaging
Functional neuroimaging is the use of neuroimaging technology to measure an aspect of brain function, often with a view to understanding the relationship between activity in certain brain areas and specific mental functions.
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Functional theories of grammar
Functional theories of grammar are those approaches to the study of language that see functionality of language and its elements to be the key to understanding linguistic processes and structures.
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Generative grammar
Generative grammar is a linguistic theory that regards grammar as a system of rules that generates exactly those combinations of words that form grammatical sentences in a given language.
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Geoffrey K. Pullum
Geoffrey Keith Pullum (born March 8, 1945) is a British-American linguist specialising in the study of English.
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Gestures in language acquisition
Gestures are a form of non-verbal communication that include movements of the hands, arms, and/or other parts of the body.
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Glossary of language education terms
Language teaching, like other educational activities, may employ specialized vocabulary and word use.
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Grammar
In linguistics, grammar (from Greek: γραμματική) is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.
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Grammar induction
Grammar induction (or grammatical inference) is the process in machine learning of learning a formal grammar (usually as a collection of re-write rules or productions or alternatively as a finite state machine or automaton of some kind) from a set of observations, thus constructing a model which accounts for the characteristics of the observed objects.
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Heuristic
A heuristic technique (εὑρίσκω, "find" or "discover"), often called simply a heuristic, is any approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery that employs a practical method, not guaranteed to be optimal, perfect, logical, or rational, but instead sufficient for reaching an immediate goal.
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Infant
An infant (from the Latin word infans, meaning "unable to speak" or "speechless") is the more formal or specialised synonym for "baby", the very young offspring of a human.
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Inferior frontal sulcus
The inferior frontal sulcus is a sulcus between the middle frontal gyrus and the inferior frontal gyrus.
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Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget (9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist and epistemologist known for his pioneering work in child development.
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Jenny Saffran
Jenny Saffran is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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Jerome Bruner
Jerome Seymour Bruner (October 1, 1915 – June 5, 2016) was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology.
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Jerry Fodor
Jerry Alan Fodor (April 22, 1935 – November 29, 2017) was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist.
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John Locke
John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".
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KE family
The KE family is a medical name designated for a British family, about half of whom exhibit a severe speech disorder called developmental verbal dyspraxia.
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Kuniyoshi Sakai
is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo.
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Language
Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.
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Language acquisition by deaf children
Language acquisition by deaf children parallels the development of any children acquiring spoken language as long as there is full access to language from birth.
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Language acquisition device
The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a hypothetical module of the human mind posited to account for children's innate predisposition for language acquisition.
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Language attrition
Language attrition is the process of losing a native, or first, language.
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Language delay
Language delay is a failure in children to develop language abilities on the usual age-appropriate for their developmental timetable.
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Language deprivation experiments
Language deprivation experiments have been attempted several times through history, isolating infants from the normal use of spoken or signed language in an attempt to discover the fundamental character of human nature or the origin of language.
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Language development
Language development is a process starting early in human life.
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Latent semantic analysis
Latent semantic analysis (LSA) is a technique in natural language processing, in particular distributional semantics, of analyzing relationships between a set of documents and the terms they contain by producing a set of concepts related to the documents and terms.
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Learning
Learning is the process of acquiring new or modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences.
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Lectures on Government and Binding
Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures (LGB) is a book by American linguist Noam Chomsky, published in 1981.
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Lev Vygotsky
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (p; – June 11, 1934) was a Soviet psychologist, the founder of an unfinished theory of human cultural and bio-social development commonly referred to as cultural-historical psychology, a prominent advocate for a new theory of consciousness, the "psychology of superman", and leader of the Vygotsky Circle (also referred to as "Vygotsky-Luria Circle").
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Lexical item
In lexicography, a lexical item (or lexical unit/ LU, lexical entry) is a single word, a part of a word, or a chain of words (.
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List of children's speech corpora
A child speech corpus is a speech corpus documenting first-language language acquisition.
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List of language acquisition researchers
Below are some notable researchers in language acquisition listed by intellectual orientation and research topic.
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Literacy
Literacy is traditionally meant as the ability to read and write.
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Machine learning
Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence in the field of computer science that often uses statistical techniques to give computers the ability to "learn" (i.e., progressively improve performance on a specific task) with data, without being explicitly programmed.
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Manual babbling
Manual babbling is a linguistic phenomenon that has been observed in deaf children and children born to deaf parents and appears at the early stages of language acquisition.
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, shortened to MPI EVA) is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, founded in 1997.
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Melissa Bowerman
Melissa Bowerman (April 3, 1942 – October 31, 2011) was a leading researcher in the area of language acquisition.
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Mental lexicon
The mental lexicon is defined as a mental dictionary that contains information regarding a word's meaning, pronunciation, syntactic characteristics, and so on.
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Merge (linguistics)
Merge (usually capitalized) is one of the basic operations in the Minimalist Program, a leading approach to generative syntax, when two syntactic objects are combined to form a new syntactic unit (a set).
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Metalinguistic awareness
Metalinguistic awareness refers to the ability to objectify language as a process as well as an artifact.
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Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello (born January 18, 1950) is an American developmental and comparative psychologist; as well a linguist.
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Minimalist program
In linguistics, the minimalist program (MP) is a major line of inquiry that has been developing inside generative grammar since the early 1990s, starting with a 1993 paper by Noam Chomsky.
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Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language.
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Natural language processing
Natural language processing (NLP) is an area of computer science and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages, in particular how to program computers to process and analyze large amounts of natural language data.
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Nature versus nurture
The nature versus nurture debate involves whether human behaviour is determined by the environment, either prenatal or during a person's life, or by a person's genes.
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Neuroscience
Neuroscience (or neurobiology) is the scientific study of the nervous system.
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Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic and political activist.
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Non-native speech database
A non-native speech database is a speech database of non-native pronunciations of English.
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Noun
A noun (from Latin nōmen, literally meaning "name") is a word that functions as the name of some specific thing or set of things, such as living creatures, objects, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas.
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Operant conditioning
Operant conditioning (also called "instrumental conditioning") is a learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.
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Operator (linguistics)
In generative grammar, the technical term operator denotes a type of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency.
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Origin of language
The evolutionary emergence of language in the human species has been a subject of speculation for several centuries.
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Passive speaker (language)
A passive speaker (also referred to as a receptive bilingual or passive bilingual) is a category of speaker who has had enough exposure to a language in childhood to have a native-like comprehension of it, but has little or no active command of it.
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Phoneme
A phoneme is one of the units of sound (or gesture in the case of sign languages, see chereme) that distinguish one word from another in a particular language.
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Phonology
Phonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages.
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Plato
Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn, in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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Positron emission tomography
Positron-emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine functional imaging technique that is used to observe metabolic processes in the body as an aid to the diagnosis of disease.
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Poverty of the stimulus
Poverty of the stimulus (POS) is the argument from linguistics that children are not exposed to rich enough data within their linguistic environments to acquire every feature of their language.
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Prelingual deafness
A prelingual deaf individual is someone who was born with a hearing loss, or whose hearing loss occurred before they began to speak.
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Premotor cortex
The premotor cortex is an area of motor cortex lying within the frontal lobe of the brain just anterior to the primary motor cortex.
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Principles and parameters
Principles and parameters is a framework within generative linguistics in which the syntax of a natural language is described in accordance with general principles (i.e. abstract rules or grammars) and specific parameters (i.e. markers, switches) that for particular languages are either turned on or off.
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Psychological nativism
In the field of psychology, nativism is the view that certain skills or abilities are "native" or hard-wired into the brain at birth.
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Recursion
Recursion occurs when a thing is defined in terms of itself or of its type.
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Regular and irregular verbs
A regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows the typical pattern, or one of the typical patterns, of the language to which it belongs.
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Reinforcement
In behavioral psychology, reinforcement is a consequence that will strengthen an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent stimulus.
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Relational frame theory
Relational frame theory (RFT) is a psychological theory of human language.
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ROBO1
Roundabout homolog 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ROBO1 gene.
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Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap (May 18, 1891 – September 14, 1970) was a German-born philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter.
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Science
R. P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol.1, Chaps.1,2,&3.
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Second language
A person's second language or L2, is a language that is not the native language of the speaker, but that is used in the locale of that person.
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Second-language acquisition
Second-language acquisition (SLA), second-language learning, or L2 (language 2) acquisition, is the process by which people learn a second language.
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Second-language attrition
Second-language attrition is the decline of second-language skills, which occurs whenever the learner uses the second language to an insufficient degree (De Bot & Weltens 1991:43) or due to environmental changes the language use is limited and another language is becoming the dominant one (Olshtain 1989: 151).
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Semantics
Semantics (from σημαντικός sēmantikós, "significant") is the linguistic and philosophical study of meaning, in language, programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics.
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Sentence (linguistics)
In non-functional linguistics, a sentence is a textual unit consisting of one or more words that are grammatically linked.
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Sign language
Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use manual communication to convey meaning.
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Social interactionist theory
Social interactionist theory is an explanation of language development emphasizing the role of social interaction between the developing child and linguistically knowledgeable adults.
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Speech perception
Speech perception is the process by which the sounds of language are heard, interpreted and understood.
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Speech production
Speech production is the process by which thoughts are translated into speech.
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Speech repetition
Children copy with their own mouths the words spoken by the mouths of those around them. This enables them to learn the pronunciation of words not already in their vocabulary. Speech repetition is the saying by one individual of the spoken vocalizations made by another individual.
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Spoken language
A spoken language is a language produced by articulate sounds, as opposed to a written language.
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Statistical learning theory
Statistical learning theory is a framework for machine learning drawing from the fields of statistics and functional analysis.
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Syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.
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Syntactic category
A syntactic category is a type of syntactic unit that theories of syntax assume.
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Syntactic Structures
Syntactic Structures is a major work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky.
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Syntax
In linguistics, syntax is the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, usually including word order.
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Temporal lobe
The temporal lobe is one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the brain of mammals.
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
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Universal grammar
Universal grammar (UG) in linguistics, is the theory of the genetic component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky.
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Verbal Behavior
Verbal Behavior is a 1957 book by psychologist B. F. Skinner, in which he inspects human behavior, describing what is traditionally called linguistics.
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Vocabulary
A vocabulary is a set of familiar words within a person's language.
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Vocabulary development
Vocabulary development is a process by which people acquire words.
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Vyākaraṇa
Vyākaraṇa (Sanskrit: "explanation, analysis") refers to one of the six ancient Vedangas, ancillary science connected with the Vedas, which are scriptures in Hinduism.
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Wernicke's area
Wernicke's area, also called Wernicke's speech area, is one of the two parts of the cerebral cortex that are linked to speech (the other is Broca's area).
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Word
In linguistics, a word is the smallest element that can be uttered in isolation with objective or practical meaning.
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Zone of proximal development
The zone of proximal development, often abbreviated as ZPD, is the difference between what a learner can do without help, and what they can't do.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisition
