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Conceptualization: It is a process of language production during which an infant adjusts the range of senses attached to a word until it resembles the range of an adult.

Constructivism: is basically a theory -- based on observation and scientific study -- about how people learn. It says that people construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world, through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences.

The developmental psycholinguistics group focuses on the experimental study of early language acquisition, with a special focus on phonological and lexical acquisition. 

Linguistic determinism is the idea that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought. Determinism itself refers to the viewpoint that all events are caused by previous events, and linguistic determinism can be used broadly to refer to a number of specific views.

The linguistic relativity principle is the idea that the varying cultural concepts and categories inherent in different languages affect the cognitive classification of the experienced world in such a way that speakers of different languages think and behave differently because of it. Popularly, the distinction is between a weak and a strong version (i) weak: „language limits thought‟ and (ii) strong: „language determines thought‟.

Acting as a correct behaviour or correctly.

Overgeneralization

In language acquisition, children tend to have a wider use of a grammatical feature or concept than adult norms permit. This phenomenon is called overgneralization.

 Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics is a new science which attempts to study language as a psychological process, a study of great theoretical and practical significance. It takes the human language and its psychological processes as its subject area. Its aim is to find out about the structures and processes that underlie human being‟s ability to learn, to speak and to understand language.

something that helps another thing to develop better or more quickly