Chapter 8_Language Acquisition Flashcards
Innate
Determined by factors present from birth.
Imitation theory
Child language acquisition theory that claims that children acquire language by listening to the speech
Reinforcement theory
Theory of child language acquisition which says that children learn to speak like adults
Active construction
Theory of child language based on rules of grammar
Linguistic universals
Property believed to be held in common by All natural languages.
Universal grammar
The theory that posits a set of grammatical characteristics shared by all natural language.
Homesign
A rudimentary visual-gestural communication
Rules
A formal statement of an observed generalization about patterns in language.
Social interaction theory
Theory of language acquisition that children acquire language with older children and adults.
High amplitude sucking
Experimental technique used to study sound discrimination in infants from birth to about six months.
Conditioned head-turn procedure
technique usually used with infants between five and eighteen months
Voice onset time
The length of time between the release of a consonant and onset of voicing
articulatory gestures
A movement of a speech organ
babbling
A phase in child language during which the child produces meaningless sequences
Canonical babbling
The continuous repetition of sequences of vowels and consonants
Variegated babbling
Production of meaningless consonant-vowel sequences by infants.
holophrastic stage
Stage in first-language acquisition
Telegraphic stage
A phase during child language acquisition in which children use utterances
plaintext
the original non-encoded text.
overgeneralization
Study of child language acquisition between child and adult.
Negatives politeness
In face theory
complexive concept
A term used in the study of child language acquisition
overextention
In the study of child language acquisition.
underextension
Application of a word to a smaller set of objects
Relational term
Relationship between adjective and noun
deictic expressions
word or expression that takes its meaning relative to the time.
infant directed speech
Speech used by parents to their child.
Child-directed speech
Speech used by parents to communicate with their child
Attention getters
word or phase used to initiate an address to children
Attention holders
A tactic used to maintain Children’s attention
conversational turns
The contribution to a conversation made by one speaker.
multilingual
The state of commanding three or more languages.
bilingual
State of commanding two languages
Second-language acquistion
Acquisition of a second language as a teenager
Language mixing
code-switching
Foreign accent
An accent that is marked by the phonology of another language
fossilization
Process through which forms from a speaker’s non-native language
transfer
The influence of one’s native language on the learning of subsequent language
code switching
Using words or structural elements from more than one language
Naturalness
In speech synthisis
