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Birth: crying
2 - 4 months: cooing begins
5 months: understands first word
6 months: babbling begins
7 - 11 months: change from universal linguist to language-specific listener
8 - 12 months: uses gestures (showing and pointing), comprehension of words appears
13 months: first word spoken
18 months: vocabulary spurt starts
18 - 24 months: uses 2-word utterances, rapid expansion of understanding of words

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= the appropriate use of language in different contexts
- e.g.: using polite language in appropriate situations, telling jokes that are funny, stories that are interesting
- understanding the rules of my culture for adjusting language to suit the context

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= units of meaning involved in word formation
- morpheme = word or word part that cannot be broken into smaller meaningful parts
- every word in English language is made up of morphemes
- e.g. 'help' is made up of a single morpheme but not all morphemes are words by themselves

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= the sound system of the language, including the sounds that are used and how they may be combined
- phoneme = basic unit of sound in a language
- e.g.: 'pot' and 'spot' is a phoneme

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= the meaning of words and sentences
- for example: "girl" and "women" share similar semantic features but differ semantically in regard to age

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= the way words are combined to form acceptable phrases and sentences
- understanding of the sentence because of grammatical correctness
- "Bob slugged Tom" and "Bob was slugged by Tom" in both sentences, it is easy to identify who did the slugging
- language specific