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| the idea that early experiences can significantly shape later development |
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| models of development that race the ways in which the characteristics of the child and characteristics of the child's environment interact across time to determine developmental outcomes |
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| an area of research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment as well as those that are associated with health development |
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| personal characteristics or environmental circumstances that increase the probability of negative outcomes for children. Risk is a statistic that applies to groups, not individuals. |
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| the ability to recover quickly from the adverse effects of early experiences or persevere in the face of stress with no apparent special negative psychological consquences |
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| environmental and personal factors that are the source of children's resilience in the face of hardship |
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| a system of child exchange within families; its is a traditional practices in many African societies |
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| the rules of a given language for the sequencing of words in a sentence and the ordering of parts of words |
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| the embedding of sentences within each other |
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| the smallest unit of meaning in the words of language |
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| a term for the error of applying verbs labels too broadly |
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| a term used to apply verbal labels in a narrower way than adults do |
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| a term for babie's simple-word utternance that some believe stand for entire phrases or sentences |
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| words and parts of words that create meaning by showing the relations between other elements within the sentence |
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| pragmatic uses of language |
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| the ability to select words and word orderings are appropriate to their action in particular contexts |
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| actions that achieve goals through language |
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| the conversational principle to make your contributions to conversation at the required time and for the accepted purpose of the talk exchange |
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| Chomskian terms, the actual sentences that people produce |
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| chomskinan: basic set of rules of a language from which the actual sentences that people produce are derived |
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| language aquisition device |
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| chomsky: innate language-processing capacity that is programmed to recognize the universal rules that underlie any particular language that a child might hear |
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| recurrent socially patterned activities in which adult and child to things together |
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| Language acquisition support system |
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| Bruner's terms for the parental behaviors formatted events within which children acquire language. It is the environmental complement to the innate LAD |
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| the way in which children quickly form an idea of the meaning of an unfamiliar word they hear in a familiar and highly structured social interaction |
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| speech directed to young children that is characterize by a special high-pitched voice, an emphasis on the boundaries between idea-bearing clauses and simplified vocab |
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