Language & Communications

1. Language

1.1 Elements of language

• phonology
• semantics
• grammar
• syntax
• morphology
• pragmatics

1.2 Perceiving speech

• phonemes
• categorical speech perception
• child-directed speech
• infant-directed speech
• motherese

1.3 speech production

• cooing
• babbling
• intonation
• sign language

2. Learning the meaning of words

2.1 words as symbols

2.2 learning styles

• referential style
• expressive style

2.3 fast mapping

• joint attention
• protodeclaratives
• naming explosion
• underextension
• overextension
• syntactic bootstrapping
• the "daxes"

2.4 Encouraging learning

3. Theories of language development

3.1 Behaviorist perspective

3.2 Nativist perspective

3.3 Interactionist perspective

4. Bilingualism

5. Speaking in sentences

5.1 Two-word speech

• Telegraphic speech
• grammatical morphemes
• over-regularization

5.2 Acquiring grammar

• Broca's area
• Wernicke's area
• Syntactic bootstrapping

6. Communication

6.1 Taking turns in conversations

6.2 Speaking effectively

• referential communication skills
• speech registers

6.3 Listening well