Key Terms

babbling

bilingualism

categorical perception

collective monologues

comprehension

connectionism

critical period

distributional properties

dual representation

fast mapping

generativity

holophrastic period

infant-directed speech (IDS)

metalinguistic knowledge

modularity hypothesis

morphemes

narratives

overextension

overregularization

phonemes

phonological development

pragmatic cues

pragmatic development

production

prosody

reference

semantic development

symbols

syntactic bootstrapping

syntactic development

syntax

telegraphic speech

Universal Grammar

voice onset time (VOT)

word segmentation