Week 7: Chapter 7 "Learning Language"

3. Commenting in the semantic content of children's words.
4. Children's utterances filled in with missing words by adults.
9. First used to teach politeness formulas such as greetings or farewells.
11. Helpful in instructing children to express polite forms of address and formulas for greetings.
12. Children's difficulties that lie on simultaneous operation of multiple transformations.
13. Generally consists of nouns and verbs with which a child communicates his or her referential, imperative, or expressive intentions.
14. Questions introduced by what, who, where, why and when.

1. Placement of objects, persons, and/or events in space or time.
2. Demonstrated by the fact that children respond appropriately to commands and suggestions made by others.
5. "Motherese", "Babytalk" or simplified speech in order to accommodate the child's level of understanding.
6. Characteristics of the surface form of words, carrying important information about agents, object, recipients associated with activities or states.
7. Verbs that are derived from nouns.
8. Each word expresses broad semantic contextual meanings.
10. A category contains a few words used with high frequency in combination with items from the open category.