Langugae Acquisition

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Language Acquisition Device

The brain's inbuilt capacity to acquire language (Noam Chomsky)

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Universal Grammar

All languages share the principles of grammar despite surface differences such as lexis or phonology (Noam Chomsky)

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Phonemic Expansion

The variety of sounds increase (for example, children move from cooing to babbling)

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Phonemic contraction

The variety of sounds is reduced to the sounds of the main language used

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Vocative

A form (especially a noun)used to address a person (for example, mummy)

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Virtuous error

syntactic errors made by young children in which a non-standard utterance reveals some understanding, though incomplete, of standard syntax (for example, saying 'runned' instead of 'ran' shows the child understands that 'ed' is often used to put a wo

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Universal Grammar

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All languages share the principles of grammar despite surface differences such as lexis or phonology (Noam Chomsky)

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Phonemic Expansion

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Phonemic contraction

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Vocative

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