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2. Vocabulary development - Wikipedia

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   Vocabulary development is a process by which people acquire words. Babbling shifts towards meaningful speech as infants grow and produce their first words around the age of one year. In early word learning, infants build their vocabulary slowly. By the age of 18 months, infants can typically produce about 50 words and begin to make word ...

3. Semantic bootstrapping - Wikipedia

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   Semantic bootstrapping is a linguistic theory of child language acquisition which proposes that children can acquire the syntax of a language by first learning and recognizing semantic elements and building upon, or bootstrapping from, that knowledge. [ 1] This theory proposes that children, when acquiring words, will recognize that words label ...

4. Language development - Wikipedia

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   Language development in humans is a process which starts early in life. Infants start without knowing a language, yet by 10 months, babies can distinguish speech sounds and engage in babbling. Some research has shown that the earliest learning begins in utero when the fetus starts to recognize the sounds and speech patterns of its mother's ...

5. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe - Wikipedia

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   Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Illustration from A Book of Nursery Rhymes (1901). " Eeny, meeny, miny, moe " – which can be spelled a number of ways – is a children's counting-out rhyme, used to select a person in games such as tag, or for selecting various other things. It is one of a large group of similar rhymes in which the child who is ...

6. Charades - Wikipedia

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   Man acting out a word in the game of charades. Charades (UK: / ʃ ə ˈ r ɑː d z /, US: / ʃ ə ˈ r eɪ d z /) [1] is a parlor or party word guessing game.Originally, the game was a dramatic form of literary charades: a single person would act out each syllable of a word or phrase in order, followed by the whole phrase together, while the rest of the group guessed.

7. Echolalia - Wikipedia

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   Ganos et al (2012) define echolalia as an "automatic imitative action without explicit awareness". [1] Children often first babble syllables and eventually words they hear. For example, a baby may often hear the word "bottle" in various sentences.

8. Phonics - Wikipedia

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   Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

9. Glossary of comics terminology - Wikipedia

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   Comics. "Comics" is used as a non-count noun, and thus is used with the singular form of a verb, [1] in the way the words "politics" or "economics" are, to refer to the medium, so that one refers to the "comics industry" rather than the "comic industry". "Comic" as an adjective also has the meaning of "funny", or as pertaining to comedians ...