Editing Language Acquisition (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> ==
* '''Phonology''' — The study of speech sounds (phonemes) used in a language.
* '''Morphology''' — The study of how words are formed from smaller units of meaning (morphemes).
* '''Syntax''' — The rules for combining words into grammatically correct sentences.
* '''Semantics''' — The study of meaning in language.
* '''Pragmatics''' — The study of how context influences the interpretation of meaning.
* '''Universal Grammar (UG)''' — Noam Chomsky's theory that humans have an innate biological "blueprint" for language.
* '''Language Acquisition Device (LAD)''' — A hypothetical brain mechanism that facilitates language learning.
* '''Critical Period Hypothesis''' — The idea that there is a window (up to puberty) during which language acquisition is most successful.
* '''Babbling''' — An early stage of language development where infants produce speech-like sounds without specific meaning.
* '''Telegraphic Speech''' — Early speech stage (around age 2) in which a child speaks like a telegram—"go car"—using mostly nouns and verbs.
* '''Overregularization''' — Applying a grammatical rule too broadly (e.g., saying "goed" instead of "went").
* '''Poverty of the Stimulus''' — The argument that children aren't exposed to enough data to learn the complex rules of grammar through mere imitation.
* '''Social Interactionist Theory''' — The view that language development is driven by the desire to communicate with others.
* '''Nativism''' — The philosophical position that certain skills or abilities are "native" or hard-wired into the brain at birth.
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