Chapter 2 Flashcards
Three achievements in speech in preschool children
Master all phonemes of English by 8
Exhibiting only lingering difficulties with a few of the later developing phonemes (4-5)
Suppression of the phonological processes (3-4)
Definition of vocabulary spurt
An increase in the rate of vocabulary acquisition for a child (after 50 words)
7-9 new words per day
Definition of dysgraphia
And expressive visual language disorder
Phase 2 of Joint Reference and attention
6 months to 1 year
Engages in joint attention
Performs object-focused activities
Makes attempts to communicate with others
Definition of functional competence
The ability to communicate for a variety of purposes in a language
Semantic development
The stage at which children produce two types of semantic errors as they acquire new words
Three communicative milestones of school aged children
Functional flexibility
reading and writing
form refinements
Definition of Vocalizations
That sounds children produce
Definition of Mean length of utterance (MLU)
Measure of the average length of children’s utterances.
Increases systematically with age up to about four years
Definition of infant speech perception
The child’s attention to phonemes, rhythm, prosody, and lexical items
__ -year-old children correctly produce about __% of the sounds they use
2, 70%
Telegraphic speech
When grammatical morphemes first emerge and language results from the omission of key grammatical markers
Three achievements in form for preschool children
Verb morphology
Sentences become more complex
Compound sentences
For major communicative milestones for infancy and toddler hood
Localization
verbalization
prelinguistic stage
linguistic stage
Definition of phonological processes
Simplifications used by children in their phonological productions
Definition of jargon
Infants use this melodic patterns of their native language
Meaningful to infant, but not to listeners
Definition of lexical competence
The ability to recognize and produce the words of a language
Definition of overExtensions
When a child extend the words meeting to widely
Definition of linguistic stage
The stage starts with the child’s first word
Definition of fast mapping
The initial exposure to a word accompanied by the rapid acquisition of a general sense of its meaning
Definition of under extension
The process of when a child does not extend the words meaning widely enough
Definition of discourse competence
The ability to fluently and coherently relay information to others
Three aspects of form refinements in school aged children
Develop complex syntax
Vocab of about 60,000 words
Understanding multiple meanings, lexical ambiguity and figurative language
Definition of sociolinguistic competence
The ability to interpret the social meaning conveyed by the language and to choose language that is socially appropriate
Definition of grammatical morphemes
When a child begins to inflect words with word ending (18 months)