Ch 5 Vocab

Question 1

mutual gaze

Answer 1

looking at each other; may signal intensifed attention

Question 2

protoconversation

Answer 2

interactional exchanges that contain the initial elements of emerging conversation

Question 3

intentionality

Answer 3

goal directness; exhibited when a child begins to encode a message for someone else

Question 4

communication intentions

Answer 4

messages that children begin to encode for someone else; an explicit bid for attention is coupled with a signal; requesting, interacting, and attracting attention

Question 5

protoimperative

Answer 5

requests; generally requesting objects, participation, or actions

Question 6

protodeclarative

Answer 6

to share information a goal of maintaining joint or shared attending; pointing or showing

Question 7

bracketing

Answer 7

the use of prosodic or rhythmic cues to detect divisions between clauses and phrases; divisions marked by maternal pauses, pitch changes, vowel lengthening, or by using specific words

Question 8

clustering

Answer 8

the use of predictable phonotactic units within words

Question 9

joint reference

Answer 9

two or more individuals share a common focus on one entity

Question 10

joint action

Answer 10

routinized actions/shared behaviors that a caregiver and infant develop in familiar contexts throughout the first year of life