Chapter 5,6,7 Flashcards

1
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What is infant’s speech perception?

A

Their ability to devot attention to the prosodic and phonetic regularities of speech (rhythm, combinations of specific sounds)

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Prosodic = \_\_\_?
Duration = \_\_\_?
Intensity = \_\_\_?
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Prosodic = frequency/pitch
Duration = length
Intensity = loudness
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3
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Define stress in terms of prosodic regularities

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The prominence placed on certain syllables of multisyllabic words

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4
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Define intonation

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Similar to stress; prominence placed on certain syllables in entire sentences/phrases

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5
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Prosodic characteristics

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Frequency
Intensity
Duration

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6
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Phonetic regularities include?

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Phonemes

Combinations of phonemes

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7
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Categorical perception

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The ability that allows humans to categorize speech in ways that highlight differences in meaning and ignore variations that are nonessential or not meaningful in their language

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8
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Perceptual narrowing

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The process by which infants start to focus more on perceptual differences that are relevant to them and focus less that are not relevant to them

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9
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Phonotactic regularities

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The ability to recognize the combinations of phonemes in one’s language

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10
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Stage model

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Following an observable and sequential pattern

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11
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Define reflexive focalization

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(0-2 months) sounds of discomfort like crying and vegetable sounds

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12
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  1. Control of phonation
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1-4 months cooing

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13
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  1. Expansion vocalizations
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3-8 months
Isolate vowel sounds
Marginal babbling

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14
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Define marginal babbling

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CV babbling with prolongs transitions between the consonant and vowel

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15
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  1. Basic canonical syllables age range
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5-10 months

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16
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Advance form focalization age range

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9-18 months

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17
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Paralinguistic features of infant directed speech

3

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High pitch
Contoured pitch
Slow tempo

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18
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Syntactic characteristics of IDS

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Shorter MLU
Fewer subordinate clauses
More content words
Less function words

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19
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What is the difference between imperative pointing and declarative pointing

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Imperative pointing is used to request adults to retrieve something for them

Declarative pointing is used to call attention to an object and to comment on the object

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20
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3 phases of joint attention

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Phase 1: attendance to social partners (birth to 6 month)
Phase 2: coordination of joint attention (6 mo - 1 year)
Phase 3: transition to language (1 yo +)

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21
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7 characteristics of caregiver responsiveness

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  1. Waiting and listening
  2. Following child’s lead
  3. Joining in and playing
  4. Being face to face
  5. Using a variety of questions and labels
  6. Encouraging turn taking
  7. Expanding and extending
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22
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3 important criteria for true words

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  1. Produce the word with clear purpose
  2. Must have a recognizable pronunciation similar to actual word
  3. Used consistently and extends beyond the original context
23
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What does a lexical entry include?

A

Sound of word , meaning of word, part of speech

24
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Referential gestures

A

Gesture that indicates a precise referent and meaning across different context.

25
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Customary age of production

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50 % of children can produce a sound in an adult like way in multiple positions

26
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Age of mastery

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Age when children produce adult like sounds

27
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Phonological processes

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Systematic and rule-governed speech patterns that characterized toddlers speech

28
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50 word mark occurs when?

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18 months and 2 years

29
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Brown stages (6)

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  1. (18 mo) single words
  2. (24 mo) two word sentence
  3. (30 mo) 3 word sentences with ind clauses
  4. (36 mo) 4 word sentences
  5. (42 mo) connecting devices emerge (and, because)
  6. (54 mo) complex syntax
30
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Quinean conundrum

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Uncertainty surrounding mapping words to their referents in the face seemingly limitless interpretations

31
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Fast mapping

A

Learn novel words with few exposures

32
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Thematic roles toddlers acquire (5)

A

Agent: something that performs the action

Theme: movement

Source: starting point

Goal: ending point

Location: place

33
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When does vocabulary spurt happen?

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18 and 24 months of age or around the time they produce 50 words

34
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How many words do children learn on average per day?

A

9

35
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Overextension

A

Children use words in an overly general manner

36
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3 overextensions

A

Categorical
Analogically
Relational

37
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Categorical overextension

A

Extend a known word to another word in the same category

38
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Analogical overextension

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Extend a known word to other words that are similar (ball for round objects)

39
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Relational overextension

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Extend a known other to other words that are semantically or thematically related (flower for water can)

40
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Under extension

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Use words to refer to only a subset of possible referents (refer bottle to only her baby bottle and not other bottles)

41
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Overlap

A

Overextend and underextend

42
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3 reasons for word error use

A

Category membership errors
Pragmatic errors
Retrieval errors

43
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6 discourse functions

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  1. Instrumental functions: satisfy their needs (including requests)
  2. Regulatory functions: control others’ behavior ( imp eratives )
  3. Personal interactional functions: share information about themselves and their feelings with others
  4. Heuristic functions: requesting information of others to learn about the world
  5. Imaginative functions: telling stories to make believe and pretend
  6. Informative functions: give information to others
44
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Contextualized language:

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Grounding in our immediate context

The here and now

45
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Decontextualized language

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Relies on language for meaning

46
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Emergent literacy

A

Earliest period of learning about reading and writing

47
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Meta linguistic ability

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Ability to view language as an object of attention

48
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3 important achievements in emergent literacy for preschoolers

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Alphabet knowledge: children’s knowledge about the letters of the alphabet
◦ Print awareness: children’s understanding of the forms and functions of written language
◦ Phonological awareness: children’s sensitivity to the sound units that make up speech (phonemes, syllables, words)

49
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4 hypothesis to learning alphabet letters

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Own name advantage
Letter name pronunciation effect
Letter order hypothesis
Consonant order hypothesis

50
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Own name advantage

A

learn those letters earlier which occur in their own names

51
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Letter name pronunciation effect

A

learn earlier those alphabet letters for which the name of the letter is in the letter’s pronunciation

52
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Letter order hypothesis

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letters occurring earlier in the alphabet string are learned before letters occurring later in the alphabet string

53
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Consonant order hypothesis

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letters for which corresponding consonantal phonemes are learned early in development are learned earlier than letters for which corresponding consonantal phonemes are learned later

54
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6 achievements in print awareness

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Print interest

Recognize that print exists in the environment and in books

Print functions: print conveys meaning and has a specific function

Print conventions: read print left to right and top to bottom

Print forms: specific print units– words and letters

Print part-to-whole relationships: letters combine to form words