chapter 7 - Birth to 3 years

Question 1

Joint Attention

Answer 1

children focus their attention on an object/event with a social partner through nonverbal communication

Question 2

Joint Focus

Answer 2

infant and adult look at the same object/event, arising from infant’s interest & adult gives labels/names

Question 3

Reduplicated Babbling

Answer 3

consonant-vowel sequences

Question 4

Intonation

Answer 4

prosodic feature related to the fundamental frequency of vocal fold vibration

Question 5

Phonology

Answer 5

• figuring out system of language

- prefer consonants

Question 6

Semantic Awareness -is receptive or expressive great? More advantage from?

Answer 6

• consistant connection between word and object
• receptive
• more experiences

Question 7

Pragmatics

Answer 7

intentionality with gestures and words

Question 8

Narrative

Answer 8

• connect sentences to tell a story

- ability linked to later reading/writing skills

Question 9

Cognition

Answer 9

• organization via schema

- dissonance/disequalibrium

Question 10

Play

Answer 10

-early games and linguistic labels = early language comprehension skills

Question 11

Symbolic Functions

Answer 11

• using a word to represent an activity
• use word object not right there
• use something to represent something else

Question 12

Decontextualize

Answer 12

talking about something that is not right there or happening at the moment

Question 13

Semantic Roles

Answer 13

relate to a word that has a relationship to another word in the sentence

Question 14

Chaining -3 years

Answer 14

talk about events that relate to a central topic with no particular order of occurrence

Question 15

Types of Speech Acts

Answer 15

• greeting, invitation
• request, indirect request
• promise
• complaint, refusal

Question 16

Semantic Relations

Answer 16

relations between concepts or meanings