Ch. 6 Vocab Flashcards
Combining 2 word utterances together, omitting factor words, keeping content word, which makes utterances understandable
Telegraphic speech
Most significant preverbal behavior and consists of simple vocal sounds and consonant-vowel combinations
Babbling
Smallest meaningful unit of language
Morphemes
Single morpheme that can stand alone and hold meaning
Free morpheme
Not meaningful when produced alone “-ing, pre-“
Bound morpheme
When a child’s verbal/nonverbal behaviors signal a real communication attempt
Communicative intent
MLU
Mean length of utterance: average length of a child’s utterances
Functional disorder in apparently normal children
Specific language disorder
Limited language skills in a school aged child
Language learning disorder
Acquire words and meaning slowly; slow growth in vocab; learn simpler, frequently used concrete words; difficulty understanding meanings if spoken words
Semantic problems
(Word order) Difficulties in sentence construction
Syntactic problems
Speak without many morphological features. Morphological aspects: are ways words are formatted and modified to change meaning
Morphological problems
(Social communication) Might acquire some language structures but not use them appropriately in social situations
Pragmatic problems
Procedure of recording a person’s language production and conversational speech
Language sampling
Language is an innate function and every human has a “language acquisition device” ; focuses on syntax
Nativist
