Chapter 8 (Start of Final) Flashcards
What are the sources of language input for children in the school years?
More dependent on written language as well as spoken language
Learning a new word from a parent or text
Direct instruction
Learning a new word using contextual clues in both written and spoken forms to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words
Contextual abstraction
Personal world knowledge; bringing all previous knowledge to learn a word
Pragmatic inferences
Only use text information and having no background information to learn a word
Logical inferences
Learning new words by analyzing lexical, inflectional, and derivational morphemes of unfamiliar words to infer meanings
Morphological analysis
At what age are definitions categorical?
10
What age will children form sentences with appropriate detail?
7
Early definitions are _____ and _____
Descriptive and functional
Experience with a word is directly related to the _____ of the definition
Quality
Words sound alike and spelled the same
Homonyms
Words sound alike; may be spelled alike or differently
Homophones
Words spelled the same; may sound alike or different
Homographs
What is an example of a homonym?
Bear and bear, duck and duck
What is an example of a homophone?
to and two, shoe and shoo, duck and duck, bear and bare
What is an example of a homograph?
to and too, duck and duck
What is an example of an idiom?
He woke up on the wrong side of the bed; he gave me the cold shoulder
What is an example of a simile?
Sitting like a bump on a log; the land is hard as a brick
What is an example of a metaphor?
All the world’s a stage
What is an example of irony/sarcasm?
What a beautiful day!
Often say something that is non-literal but can literally happen
Idiom
Comparing two things and using the word “like” or “as”
Simile
Comparing two things but not using a comparative term such as “like” or “as”
Metaphor
Pitch change to let someone know you are mocking something; usually it is something you are not intending to say
Irony/sarcasm
