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• Child abuse [r]: The act of intentionally harming a child, or the results of that act. ^[e]
• Critical period hypothesis [r]: Hypothesis which claims that there is an ideal 'window' of time to acquire language in a linguistically rich environment, after which this is no longer possible. ^[e]
• Dog [r]: Domesticated canine often kept as a pet or as a working animal and known as 'man's best friend'. ^[e]
• First language acquisition [r]: Study of the processes through which humans acquire language, specifically first languages, which studies infants' acquisition of their native language. ^[e]
• Fossilization (language acquisition) [r]: loss of progress in second language acquisition, where learners no longer move towards native-like ability in the second language, often despite constant exposure to it. ^[e]
• Language acquisition [r]: The study of how language comes to users of first and second languages. ^[e]
• Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. ^[e]
• Psycholinguistics [r]: Study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. ^[e]
• Second language acquisition [r]: Process by which people learn a second language in addition to their native language(s), where the language to be learned is often referred to as the 'target language'. ^[e]