Chapter 3 Flashcards
language is a uniquely ?
- it is a ? that represents ?
- a socially ?
- provides the foundation upon which ? takes place
- a disorder of language can have a profound ?
human process that involves sharing of info
- rule governed symbol system of signs, sounds, gestures that represent ideas and concepts
- shared code
- communication, problem solving, and synthesizing knowledge takes place
- impact on a person’s ability to learn and function competently in the world
language development involves both ?
comprehension (receptive learning) and production (expressive language)
bloom and lahey identified three skills that contribute to overall language ability
form: phonology morphology and syntax
content: semantics
use: pragmatics
the form of language :
phonology is the ?
the smallest units of language which consist of ?
phonotactics: rules for ?
phonology
- sounds of a language and rules for combining them
- vowels and consonants
- combining speech sounds to create a word
morphology
is the ?
two types of morphemes ?
smallest meaningful unit of language - the structure of words
-free morpheme (stand alone word) cat, build, structure
bound morpheme: attached to free morphemes cats , builder, sturctured
syntax
the ?
example: nouns typically ?
structure of sentences and the rules for organizing words in sentences
-occur before verbs “he is running”
semantics: includes the ?
words can have
denontative meaning ?
connotative meaning?
meanings of individual words and word combinations
- literal/dictionary meaning
- emotions and feelings that a word creates. figurative language such as idioms, proverbs
figurative language
idiom: expression that does not have
proverb: a phrase that
a direct meaning
“its been raining cats and dogs”
expresses a basic truth
“the early bird catches the worm”
pragmatics
examples of these include
how language is used in context
- greetings
- departures
- enquiries
- informing
features of language development
vocalizations versus verbalizations
-pre-linguistic versus linguistic
vegetative versus non-vegetative
-reflexive versus non-reflexive
from 0 to 2 months: from 2 to 4 months: from 5 to 8 months: from 9 to 11 months: from 12 to 18 months:
cry cooing reduplicated babbling variegated babbling single words
historic aspects of child language disorders
brown’s ?
-what children
-brown found an ? that correspond to the childs?
the orderly development is organized into ?
MLU is a common measure of ?
what is it exactly
- 14 grammatical morphemes
- orderly development across the first five years of life/ MLU
- 5 stages
- expressive language development
- average number of morphemes in a language sample of 100 utterances
School- Age Language Development
- growth in?
- the most obvious growth occurs in areas of ?
- emphasis shifts from ?
- all aspects of language continue to occur
- semantics (vocab) and pragmatics (language use)
- spoke to written language
Language disorders affect up to ?
definition of a language disorder is the ?
this definition does not include ? so a language disorder can range from?
- 13% of all children
- impairment or nontypical development of comprehension and/or use of a spoken, written, or other symbol system
- severity
- mild, moderate, severe
Nonverbal: children who have developed ?
language deviance: child whose language is ?
language delay: child whose language is
- no verbal language
- qualitatively different from normal younger children
- quantitatively impaired