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Unplanned speech produced in real-time without preparation. Spontaneous speech contains features like fillers, false sta
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A sound or word (um, uh, er, like, you know) used in spontaneous speech to fill pauses while the speaker thinks. Fillers
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The initiation of an utterance that is abandoned before completion, typically restarted with a different formulation. Fa
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A pause or delay in speech, often accompanied by fillers or prolongation of sounds, indicating the speaker is planning t
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Disruptions in the smooth flow of speech including fillers, hesitations, false starts, and repairs. Non-fluency features
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Non-vocal aspects of speech including facial expressions, gestures, body position, and eye contact that communicate mean
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Speech that is prepared in advance, resulting in more polished, structured, and fluent delivery with fewer spontaneous f
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The specialized language used within particular professions or occupations, including jargon, terminology, and communica
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Specialized vocabulary or terminology associated with particular fields, professions, or domains of knowledge. Specialis
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Specialized vocabulary or expressions used within a particular profession or social group that can be obscure to outside
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The language and communicative conventions of particular professions. Professional discourse includes occupational langu
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How language use reflects, creates, and maintains power relationships between people. Powerful speakers control language
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Communication using computer technology including email, instant messaging, social media, forums, and video calls. CMC h
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The linguistic variety used in text messaging, characterised by abbreviations, initialisms, and abbreviations adapted fo
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The linguistic variety used on social media platforms including tweets, posts, comments, and stories. Social media langu
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The language used in internet communication including abbreviations, acronyms, emoticons, and adapted spellings. Netspea
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Communication that combines multiple modes of meaning-making: written text, images, sound, video, gesture, and layout. M
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The pre-verbal vocal production of vowel-like sounds by infants (typically 2-4 months), representing the beginning of li
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The vocal play of infants (typically 4-10 months) producing consonant-vowel combinations. Babbling is a crucial stage in
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The stage of early language development (typically 8-18 months) where children produce single words that express complex
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The stage of language development (typically 18-24 months) where children begin combining two words to express more comp
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The stage of language development (typically 2-3 years) where children use short utterances containing primarily content
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The stage of language development (typically 3+ years) where children move beyond telegraphic speech, adding function wo
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The developmental process by which children acquire the ability to produce and distinguish the phonemes of their native
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A systematic sound change pattern that children use to simplify adult pronunciation. Common processes include deletion,
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A lexical development error where children apply a word to a wider range of referents than is appropriate in adult langu
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A lexical development pattern where children restrict a word to a narrower range of referents than is appropriate in adu
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The expansion of a child's vocabulary from first words through early childhood. Vocabulary growth rates are rapid and fo
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A grammatical development error where children apply grammatical rules too broadly, producing forms like 'goed' and 'mou
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A set of 14 grammatical morphemes identified by Roger Brown as being acquired in a relatively consistent order during ea
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Mean Length of Utterance, a measure of grammatical development calculated as the average number of morphemes per utteran
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The developmental progression in how children express negation, typically moving from simple negation at sentence bounda
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The developmental progression in how children learn to form questions, moving from simple intonation questions to invert
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The development of children's ability to use language appropriately in social contexts, including turn-taking, politenes
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B.F. Skinner's theoretical approach to language acquisition emphasising environmental factors and reinforcement. Skinner
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Noam Chomsky's theoretical approach proposing that language acquisition is driven by innate biological capacities, parti
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Language Acquisition Device, Chomsky's hypothetical innate mental mechanism that enables children to acquire language ra
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Jerome Bruner's theoretical approach emphasising the interactive, social nature of language acquisition, including the r
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Language Acquisition Support System, Bruner's concept of the structured support and scaffolding that caregivers provide
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Michael Tomasello's theoretical approach emphasising that language acquisition is driven by children's ability to unders
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Jeanne Chall's theoretical framework describing stages children progress through in learning to read, from pre-reading t
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Barry Kroll's theoretical framework describing stages children progress through in learning to write, from pre-writing t
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A method of teaching reading by systematically teaching relationships between letters and sounds. Phonics instruction he
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Beverly Rothery's identification of text genres used in school literacy instruction, including narratives, procedurals,
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An approach to analysing discourse that examines how language reflects, maintains, and creates power relationships and s
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Research methodologies for investigating language including observation, interviews, surveys, corpus analysis, and exper
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