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| Language really begins to develop with the onset of active speech rather than during the first year of only listening |
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| studied "Black" english - ebonics- and found that it had its own complex internal structure. |
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| studied semantics, or word meanings. Created semantic differential charts, which allowed people to plot the meanings of words on graphs (like near 'good' but far from 'relaxed') the results were that people with similar backgrounds and interests plotted words similarly= the words have similar connotations for cultures/subcultures |
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| Semantic deifferential charts |
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| allows people to plot the meanigns of words on graphs (near good but far from relaxed)= similar background, similar plotting |
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| Zone of proximal development, connection between speech and development of mental concepts/cognitive awareness, thought develops socially, self talk, inner speech/external speech |
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| found that children's understanding of grammatical rules develops as they make hypotheses about how syntax works and then self-correct with experience |
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| posited that language, or how a culture says things, influences that culture's perspective (argument for the important of nonsexist language) |
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| posited that language, or how a culture says things, influences that culture's perspective |
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