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Chapter 2 Flashcards

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Define phonological development

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Acquiring the rules of language that govern the sound structure of syllables and words

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What are minimal pairs?

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Words that differ by only one phoneme

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What are phonotactic rules?

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The rules that specify the order of sounds in syllables and words and the places where certain phonemes can and cannot occur

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How do infants segment words as they learn them?

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They use phonotactic and prosodic cues

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Do vowels or consonants develop first?

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Vowels

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Phonological knowledge and production allow for intelligible speech by age…?

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3-4

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What is phonological awareness?

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The ability to attend to phonological units of speech

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What is functional load?

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The importance of a phoneme in the phonemic inventory of the language

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What is the first grammatical morpheme developed, and at what age?

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The progressive “-ing” at age 2

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AAE

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African American English

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GAE

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General American English

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What is a hallmark feature of SLI?

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Difficulty with grammatical morphology… children with SLI use “-ing” with only 25% accuracy

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What is very important in estimating syntactic development?

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Mean length of utterance (MLU)

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What are the three sentence modalities?

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Declarative, negative, and interogative

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15
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By what age should children have mastered declarative sentences?

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3 years old

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By what age should children have mastered negative sentences?

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4 years old

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By what age should children have mastered interrogative sentences?

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Preschool age

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What is a phrase?

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A cluster of words organized around a head

19
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What is a clause?

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A syntactic structure containing a verb or verb phrase

20
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What is child-directed speech?

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Talk directed at children by others

21
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What is receptive lexicon?

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The volume of words a person understands

22
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What is expressive lexicon?

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The volume of words a person uses

23
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What are the five semantic categories?

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Specific nominals (poodle), general nominals (dog), action words, modifiers, and personal-social words

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Define lead-in

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An adult labels an object or event outside of the child’s attentional focus

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Define follow-in

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An adult labels an object or event that is the child’s current focus or attention

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Ostensive word-learning contexts provide…?

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Lots of contextual information about a new word

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Nonostensive word-learning contexts provide…?

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Little information to help derive the meaning of a new word

28
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Activation of specific entries spreads across the network according to connection strength

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Spreading activation

29
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How does socioeconomic status affect language development?

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Exposure to fewer words

30
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What are the three important aspects of pragmatic development?

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Using language for different communication functions, developing conversational skills, and gaining sensitivity to extralinguistic cues

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What is the intentionality hypothesis?

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That children’s experiences using language to engage with other people fosters their development of form and content

32
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The building blocks of cognition

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Schema: internal representations of the organizational structures of events

33
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What is register?

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The stylistic variations in language that occur in different situational contexts (home vs work)

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Children who can readily switch between dialects have…?

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Heightened phonological awareness

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What is joint attention?

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When two people pay attention to the same thing

37
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What are the different communication functions?

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Instrumental: asking for something
Regulatory: giving directions
Interactional: interacting socially
Personal: expressing state of mind or feelings
Heuristic: inquiring and finding out information
Imaginative: telling stories and role-playing
Informative: giving organized descriptions

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Normal Language Development (7 decks)

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