Bloom and Lahey's

Question 1

Content Categories of Bloom and Lahey’s

Answer 1

-refers to semantics or the ideas that language CODES

Question 2

Phase 1

Answer 2

• Child’s lang. is concrete (here and now)
• single word level
• 1st vocab is mostly nouns, verbs, negation, prepositions
• up to about 16 months
• 9 categories in phase 1
• by end of phase 1 children produce successive 1 word utterances (truck…go…stop)

Question 3

Existence Phase 1

Answer 3

• primarily nouns and pronouns
• talk about things in present (here and now) that, this, mommy, bird
• phase 1

Question 4

Non-existence Phase 1

Answer 4

• disappearance
• immediately removed
• all gone, no more
• no more milk, bubble popped
• phase 1

Question 5

Recurrence Phase 1

Answer 5

• child wants something to reappear or re-occur
• more, again, nother
• phase 1

Question 6

Rejection Phase 1

Answer 6

• reject offer
• no
• phase 1

Question 7

Action Phase 1

Answer 7

• use verb
• object/person doing something
• eat, play, sleep, drink, read, look
• holds bottle up and says drink
• phase 1

Question 8

Locative Action Phase 1

Answer 8

• change in location, MOVEMENT
• go, truck go, sit, up
• sit sit sit (from standing to sitting)
• phase 1

Question 9

Possession*

Answer 9

• ability to encode ownership

- mine, daddy’s, my

Question 10

Denial *

Answer 10

• denial of identity of something/someone

- that not sock

Question 11

Attribution*

Answer 11

• encoding using adj

- dirty, pretty

Question 12

Phase 2

Answer 12

• syntax emerges
• use of word order codes meaning relations
• c talking about here and now
• same content categories, though form in changing
• 2 word utterances (relational words verbs and adj and substantive word-objects
• function words (glue words) she the in and
• structure and form are only changing

Question 13

Existence phase 2

Answer 13

• 2 word utterance= relational word + object name
• this necklace
• a rabbit

Question 14

Non-existence Phase 2

Answer 14

• 2 word utterance relational + object name
• no pocket
• airplane gone

Question 15

Recurrence Phase 2

Answer 15

• more soap
• more cookies
• more light

Question 16

Action Phase 2

Answer 16

• do it
• baby eat
• ride this
• 2 words verb +noun or pronoun + verb

Question 17

Locative Action Phase 2

Answer 17

• 2 words verb + noun/pronoun

- put in, man car, in box

Question 18

Phase 3

Answer 18

• here and now

- 3 new content categories: locative state, state, quantity

Question 19

Action Phase 3

Answer 19

• I do it

- man fix car

Question 20

Locative Action Phase 3

Answer 20

• put ball box
• put it here
• I sit chair

Question 21

Locative State Phase 3

Answer 21

• no movement (form=preposition)
• blocks in box (no change of location)
• fish IN pond

Question 22

State Phase 3

Answer 22

• of being, describes internal states such as feelings (tired, hungry), attitudes (like, love), emotions (happy, sad), intentions (want, need)
• I want it
• That’s pretty

Question 23

Quantity Phase 3

Answer 23

• plural 1+
• more than one as identified by a # word (two) use of the plural-s inlfection (hats) or adjs (many, some, all)
• there cars, two car

Question 24

Early Phases (1-3)

Answer 24

• children speak of objects and events in the here and now
• many utterances are comments and requesting
• some are used to regulate the environment
• description not as important right now

Question 25

Phases 4 and 5

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• an increasing # of utterances are about objects and events that are not present (recently experienced or soon to experience)
• speaking about action of others (more elaborate)
• utterances are related to their own prior utterances or other’s prior utterances (mini convo)
• asking quesitons (what/where) understanding and responding

Question 26

Notice

Answer 26

• Phase 4
• codes perception of an event or state (look, see)
• what he sees/hears
• calling attention to something/someone b/c he noticed it.
• look baby sleep (notice + existence + action)

Question 27

Epistemic

Answer 27

• Phase 4

- codes mental states (know) I know

Question 28

Temporal

Answer 28

• Phase 4
• coding tense (inflected verbs) and relation btwn events or states
• durative (ing) continuous
• completive (momentary s, irregular past (ed) ate

Question 29

Wh Questions

Answer 29

• Phase 4
• what is produced to question identity (existence) and where to question location (locative state/ action)
• What is that?

Question 30

Volition (State)

Answer 30

• Phase 4
• I want to go outside
• intention to do something
• I want to go to sleep
• I am going to school now

Question 31

Dative

Answer 31

• Phase 5
• indirect objects
• designates the recipient of an object or action w/ or w/o a preposition (3-4 word utterances)
• give milk to cat
• give cookies me
• i want to give the cookies (DO) to the baby (IO)

Question 32

Additive

Answer 32

• Phase 5
• conjunctions
• evidence of emergent narratives
• co-occurrence of 2 events- no dependency- reverse w/o altering meaning
• conj. may or may not be used (I sit here you sit there)
• 2 clauses connected to each other I want cookies juice
• can switch phrase around w/o changing meaning

Question 33

Causal

Answer 33

-Phase 5
-conjoined utterances via cause/effect relationships btwn states and events
-have dirty hands/hafta wash them; my toy break/fix it
so/ because are understood
-order matters

Question 34

Specification

Answer 34

• Phase 5
• this/that
• used to specify which object
• must be used w/ noun or pronoun

Question 35

Phase 6

Answer 35

• encode more relational events
• emerging use of conj.
• i want cookies AND juice
• my hands are dirty AND i have to wash them
• grammatical morpheme (the-to code specific referents) (I want that cup, the yellow one)-more specific
• that track, the long one.

Question 36

Phase 7

Answer 36

• state verbs may have a different subj. I want mommy eat cookie (to is eliminated)
• notice verb is with another verb (watch me jump)
• epistemic and specification more elaborated (I know daddys working)
• causal is coded by because or so

Question 37

Adversative

Answer 37

• Phase 7
• and/but
• contrasting events or states
• this one big but this one small
• i like your shoes but not your sweater

Question 38

Internal State

Answer 38

• Phase 7
• can is used (the mood or possibility or certainty or permission)
• i can clean my room

Question 39

Temporal Phase 7

Answer 39

-then and when are used

Question 40

Notice Phase 8

Answer 40

• new verbs show/watch

- watch me, let me show you this…

Question 41

State Phase 8

Answer 41

-connective “to” is used w/ infinitives (have to go, want to eat)

Question 42

Why

Answer 42

Phase 8 Causal

Question 43

Communication Content Category

Answer 43

• Phase 8
• ability to encode talking about something
• i told (comm + temporal)
• mommy said (comm + temporal)
• tell mommy (comm)