phonology
phonemes
morphology
semantics
morphemes
free morphemes
bound morphemes
syntax
pragmatics
sociolinguistic knowledge
linguistic universal
language acquisition device (LAD)
universal grammar
language-making capacity
aphasia
Broca's area
Wernicke's area
sensitive-period hypothesis (of language acquisition)
pidgin
creole
interactionist viewpoint
motherese
expansions
recasts
coos
babbles
receptive language
productive language
holophrase period
holophrase
naming explosion
multimodal motherese
referential style
expressive style
fast mapping
overextension
underextensions
processing constraints
object scope constraint
mutual exclusivity constraint
lexical contrast constraint
syntactical bootstrapping
telegraphic speech
grammatical morphemes
overregulation
transformational grammar
referential communication skills
morphological knowledge
metalinguistic awareness