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• Lambic stress pattern

  first syllable is not stressed

• Argument from poverty stimulus

  the argument that there is not enough input available to children to allow them to learn certain structures without the help of innate expectations that guide their language development

• Principles and parameter theory

  theory claiming that children’s language learning is dramatically constrained with the help of innate syntactic “options” or “parameters switches” that restrict the possible syntactic structures children can infer

• Direct negative evidence

  direct telling a child that his grammar use is wrong

• Direct metalinguistic evidence

  explaining what exactly in the grammar was right/ wrong

• Semantic bootstrapping theory

  children can acquire syntax of language by first learning and recognize semantic meaning, and building up upon that meaning

• Categorical perception (forced choice identification)

  a pattern of perception where changes in a stimulus are perceived not as gradual, but as sharp break between discrete categories. So, they do not hear bot /pa/ and /ba/ but show identification of another syllable after phoneme boundary

• Phoneme generation effect

  when a non-linguistic sound (such as a cough) occurs within the sound of a word (and it shares certain acoustic properties with speech sound) people are able to fill in missing phoneme  even think cough occurred before or after words utterance

• Multimodal speech perception

  visual speech information supports the perception of speech

• Age of acquisition effect

  effect on recognizing words based on at what age people learn such words. Words that are quired earlier in life will be recognized faster