GLossary - Andreinna

Andreinna Dlegado Ricci


1. Language: A body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition.

2.  Language acquisition: Is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.

3. Native language: The language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood.

4. Linguistics: Is the scientific study of human language.

5. Grammar: Is the set of structural rules that governs the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.

6. Phonetics: Is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds  of human speech.

7. Syntax: Is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages.

8. Lexicon:  All the words used in a particular language.

9. Early CHildhood: Is the early stage of growth or development.

10. Plurilinguism:  Is the use of multiple languages by a single speaker or a community.

11. Bilingualism:  Using or able to use two languages, especially with equal or nearly equal fluency.

12. Code-switching: When a bilingual or multilingual speaker shifts from one language to another in the course of a conversation.