The cultural and social dynamics we use to develop and employ communication.

Vocalizations that occur between the ages of ten and eighteen months that include both closed and open syllables.

Basic formatting for a sentence based on patterns.

The study of speech sounds and the structural relationships of the elements of speech within individual words and across language as a whole.

The sounds that letters and letter combinations make.

A means of communication without using words including crying, touching, smiling, laughing, and more.

The application of a word to a new object whose label is unknown based on common traits between the two objects.

The ability to place unknown words onto new objects. Novel-mapping opens the door to multiword use.

The combination of syntax and morphology that helps with pluralization and noun-verb agreement in sentences.

The study of the smallest units of language including the construction of words using affixes, roots, and suffixes (morphemes).