Thinking and Language
Dilemmas
Primacy of language or thought
Modularity of language
Language universals
Limits of language
Concepts
Thinking
Perception
Cognition
Mental operations
Shape manipulation
Pattern recognition
Logical inferencing
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Categorization
Prototypes
Basic-level categories
Framing
Schemas
Scripts
Conceptual Integration
Mental spaces
Blending
Metaphoric and analogic reasoning
Local
Global
Constitutive
Generative
Metaphorical inferencing
Complex cognitive operations
Reading
Instructional approaches
Whole word
Phonics
Functional literacy
Comprehension
Reasoning
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Affective factors
Emotion
Motivation
Modality
Language
Structure
Levels of description
Phonology
Privative oppositions
Morphology
Lexicon
Syntax
Text/Discourse
Rules
Generative
Constructions
Collocations
Semantics/Pragmatics
Lexical meaning
Implicature
Speech acts
Bilingualism
Code switching
Language ability
Creolisation/Pidginisation
Diglossia
Sign Language
Mutual intelligibility
Segmentation
Symbolic nature
Functions of language
Ideational (Meaning, information)
Interpersonal (Social)
Conversation
Information
Group cohesion
Language change
Textual
Cohesion
Coherence
Acquisition
Stages of development
Important concepts
U-shaped curve
Motherese
Pivot sentences
Telegraphese
Bootstrapping
Adult competence
Timeline
0-6 months
6-12 months
Babbling
12-18 months
First words
Understanding commands
18 months - 2 years
Limited repertoire of words
Pivot sentences
2-3 years
Telegraphese
Discovery of patterns with increasing productivity
3-6 years
Overregularization
Development of adult-like sentential syntax
Increase in vocabulary (app. 1000-5000 words)
6-12 years
Development of textual skills
Development of higher-level modalities
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Universal Grammar
Principles
Parameters
Learnability
Poverty of stimulus argument
Aphasias
People
Linguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Noam Chomsky
MAK Halliday
William Labov
George Lakoff
Psychology
Lev S. Vygotsky
Jean Piaget
Jerome Bruner
B.F. Skinner
Eleanor Rosch
Theories and approaches
Linguistics
Structuralism
Minimal oppositions
Value of linguistic signs
Generative linguistics
Universal Grammar
LAD
Competence/Performance
Modularity
Functional linguistics
Cognitive linguistics
Constructions
Usage-based approach
Anti-modular
Language as inventory of conventional symbolic units
Linguistic Relativism
Conversation analysis
Psychology
Gestalt psychology
Behavioral psychology
Cognitive psychology
Construtivist psychology
Developmental psychology
Information Processing
Research methods
Language
Language system
Introspection/Informants
Contrastive analysis
Distributional analysis
Corpus studies
Evidence of usage
Frequency
Collocations
Study of aphasias
Language acquisition
Own child observation
Note taking
Recording (Language in the crib)
Multi-child longitudinal studies
Experimental studies
Elicited
Unelicited
Second language acquisition
Diary studies
Observational studies
Outcome studies
Interviews
Thought
Cognitive abilities
Experiments
Attention measuring
Eye-movement tracking
Response speed measuring
Language tasks (e.g. map reading)
Introspection
Brain
Educational policy issues
Phonics
Bilingual education
Inclusive education
Foreign-language instruction
Textbook design