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are like a swingingpendulum—the emphasis goes from one extreme to the other. Until recently, the focus in pronunciation teaching was almost entirely on producing individual sounds and words correctly; not much attention was given to features such as intonation and rhythm
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They just seem to absorb the sounds and words they hear around them and, little by little, learn to imitate them accurately
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babies can remember words by listening for patterns of syllables that occur together with statistical regularity
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The cognitive theory draws attention to the large increase in children's vocabulary at around this age, suggesting a link between object permanence and the learning of labels for objects.
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In studying the lexicon of English (or any language) we may group together lexemes which inter-relate, in the sense that we need them to define or describe each other
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Being able to hear the difference between sounds in a new language is as important as being able to produce the sounds. However, hearing new sounds is not always easy. How we as adults hear sounds is a result of the way we’ve become used to hearing and classifying them in our own language
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Infants can perceive the entire range of phonemes
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Children may be noticing grammatical morphemes when they are as young as ten months and have just begun making connections between words and their definition.
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That is not a coherent field of study. it refers to the study of those factors with govern our choice language, such as our social awareness our culture and our sense of etiquette.
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Is the study of the meaning, It is a wide subject within the general study of language. an understanding of semantics is essential to the study of language acquisition and of language change.
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the ability to sort objects or situations according to any characteristic, such as size, color, shape, or type.
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A word that has the sabe meaning of another word
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A word whose meaning is included in meaning of another word
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A word that means the opposite of another word.
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The child's natural predisposition to learn language is triggered by hearing speech and the child's brain is able to interpret what s/he hears according to the underlying principles or structures it already contains.
