Welcome to the flashcards tool for ‘The Study of Language, 5 th edition’, Chapter 13 This is designed as a simple supplementary resource for this textbook, and aims to help students grasp the meaning of the core essential terms within the book. Each term will appear on its own, and you can then click to check the definition. Click or press [space] to begin.

input [ click for answer ] term:

the language that an acquirer/learner is exposed to, in contrast to output [ click for next term ] definition:

caregiver speech [ click for answer ] term:

speech addressed to young children by the adult(s) or older children who are looking after them [ click for next term ] definition:

babbling [ click for answer ] term:

the use of syllable sequences (ba-ba) and combinations (ma- ga) by young children in their first year [ click for next term ] definition:

cooing [ click for answer ] term:

the earliest use of speech-like sounds by an infant in the first few months [ click for next term ] definition:

holophrastic (utterance) [ click for answer ] term:

a single form functioning as a phrase or sentence in the early speech of young children [ click for next term ] definition:

one-word stage [ click for answer ] term:

the period in L1 acquisition when children can produce single terms for objects [ click for next term ] definition:

two-word stage [ click for answer ] term:

a period beginning at around 18–20 months when children produce two terms together as an utterance (baby chair) [ click for next term ] definition:

telegraphic speech [ click for answer ] term:

strings of words (lexical morphemes without inflectional morphemes) in phrases (daddy go byebye) produced by two- year-old children [ click for next term ] definition:

overgeneralization [ click for answer ] term:

in L1 acquisition, using an inflectional morpheme on more words than is usual in the language (e.g. two foots) [ click for next term ] definition:

overextension [ click for answer ] term:

in L1 acquisition, using a word to refer to more objects than is usual in the language (ball used to refer to the moon) [ click to exit ] definition: