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What is the definition of epenthesis
addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially to the interior of a word. The word epenthesis comes from epi "in addition to" and en "in" and thesis "putting".
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What is an alveolar plosive?
T and D
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What is crystals theory of semantic development?
little grammar machines
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An example of diminutive form
baby version - train to choo choo
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name 3 modal verbs
must, shall, will, should, would, can, could, may, and might.
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What is an LAD?
The Language Acquistion Device (LAD) is Noam Chomsky's idea. His theory proposes that linguistic development in children is an innate process, the evidence for which comes from 'linguistic universals'.
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definition of approximant
speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow. Therefore, approximants fall between fricatives, which do produce a turbulent airstream, an
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3 features of caretaker speech
change of inter-nation positive and slow speed
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example of babbling
consonant and vowel together one syllable example- ba
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what is the difference between hypernym and hyponym?
hyponym- general hypernym- specific
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example of holophrastic utterance
one word such as mummy, juice
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whose theory is telegraphic speech?
Browne- someone fills in after the child skips words and only uses key words
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What is an alveolar plosive?

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What is crystals theory of semantic development?

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An example of diminutive form

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name 3 modal verbs

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