10. Language & Other Aspects Of Development Flashcards
What is fundamental for the creation of communities
Language
The ability to communicate is essential in a community
What are the five components of language
Phonology
Morphology
Semantics
Syntax
Pragmatics
Explain phonology
The actual sound of language.
Children must learn to separate language from environmental noises and other human created sounds like sneezing and coughing.
Also they need to learn when subtle differences between speech sounds represent a change in meaning or not.
Every language has multiple speech sounds or “phonemes”
Explain morphology
The structure or words
Many words are composed of multiple building blocks called morphemes, each morpheme connotes a meaning by itself.
Example the words reorganized
Has 3 Morphemes
Re- indicating to do again
Organize- the verb
Ed- indicating an action of the past
Explain semantics
Semantics refers to the association of meaning with a word.
A child must learn that certain combinations of phonemes represent certain physical objects or events and that words may refer to entire categories.
Eg., animals
Explain the syntax component of language
Syntax refers how words are put together to form sentences and depending on how the same words are rearranged the sentence meaning may change
Children must be able to distinguish that the sentence:
John has only three pieces of candy.
Has a different meaning than:
Only John has three pieces of candy.
Explain pragmatics
the manner in which we speak may differ depending on the audience and our relationship to the audience. Dependent on context.
Example:
Asking for a seat on the bus to someone u now vs asking someone u know to just scooch over
Define bubbling (i think the slide means babbling)
It is an important pre cursor of language. A stage in child language development when infants are experimenting with uttering articulate sounds but no recognizable words
In hearing children babbling reaches its highest frequency at
9-12 months
In deaf children verbal babbling ceases when?
Soon after it begins
So babbling exists longer in
Hearing children
Explain the timeline of language learning
12- 18 months (a word per month)
18 months- child learns dozens of words
18-20 moths - basic sentences (apple turns into “that apple”)
2-3 years- longer sentences, vocab grows exponentially with many grammatical errors, rules of grammar begin to be taught (the say funner instead of more fun)
Watch slide 13 in lecture (u didn’t understand)
Language affects our thinking, it influences cognition what is this hypothesis called
Whorfian hypothesis
In medical practice what theory should be taken into consideration when dealing with young children
The theory of mind.
This theory explains that children have difficulty in understanding that others might have knowledge different than their own or that others do not know what they are thinking.
That’s why its imp to ask lots of questions when dealing with young patients
