Chapter 2 Flashcards
Jargon
special type of babbling
lexicons
mental dictionaries
Mean Length of Utterance
refers to the avg. length of Children’s sentence units, or utterances
Vocabulary Spurt
remarkable increase in the rate of vocabulary acquisition
Under-extension
applying newly learned words to specific objects or actions rather than to a category of objects or actions
Over-extension
involves the use of words in a wider set of contexts than adults would consider appropriate
Final consonant deletion
final consonant of a word is omitted (“ca” for cat)
Reduplication
first syllable in a word is repeated (“wa-wa” for water)
Consonant harmony
one consonant in a word takes on features of another consonant (“doddle” for doggie)
Weak Syllable deletion
the unstressed syllable in a word is omitted (“jams” for Pajamas)
Diminutization
the second syllable in a word is changed to “ee” or “ee” is added to a one-syllable word (“blankie” for blanket or “duckie” for duck)
Cluster Reduction
a consonant cluster is reduced to a single consonant (“tick” or “cayon”)
Liquid Gliding
the consonants /l/ and /r/ are changed to w and y (“wabbit” for rabbit and “yove” for love)
Alphabet Knowledge
children’s knowledge of the letters of the alphabet
literate language
style characterizes language that is used to “monitor and reflect on experience, and reason about, plan, and predict experiences
