Chapter 7 Flashcards
Babbling
Consonant/vowel utterances that characterize the infants first attempts to vocalize
Canonical Babbling
Repetition of simple consonant-vowel combinations in well-formed syllables
Broca’s Area
Portion of the cerebral cortex that controls expressive language
Cooing
Vowel-like utterances that characterize the infant’s first attempt to vocalize
Expansion
Repetition of a child’s utterance along with a more complex form
Fast-Mapping
Process thorough which the context in which the child hears words spoken provides the key to their meanings
Joint Attention
Episodes in which the child and another individual share the same psychological space as they encounter experiences in the world
Metalinguistic Awareness
Ability to reflect on language as a communication tool and on the self as a user of language
Morphology
Rules of how to combine the smallest meaningful units of language to form words
Mutual Exclusivity Bias
Tendency for children to assume that unfamiliar words label new objects
Overregularization
Inappropriate application of grammatical rules to words that require exceptions to those rules
Prosody
Patterns of intonation, stress, and rhythm that communicate meaning in speech
Recast
Repetition of a child’s utterance along with grammatical corrections
Semantic Bootstrapping Hypothesis
Idea that children derive information about syntax from the meaning of words
Statistical Learning
The ability to discern the probability that one event follows another
