Chapter 9: Language Diversity Flashcards
Western Cultures (us)
using infant directed speech
what cultures ignore unintelligible child speech?
african american
samoan
Kaluli
what happens when unintelligible child speech is ignored?
speech delays because they are not being corrected early on
speech adults direct to children ranges in communicative accommodation
highly child centered
highly situation center
highly child center
adult takes the perspective of the child to foster the Childs understanding and production of speech
highly situation centered
adult expects the child to accommodate to activities and persons within specific communicative situations
kaluli and Samoan parents
emphasize highly situation centered communcation
Mayan parents
situation centered with infants
child centered with toddlers
Dialects
focus on pronunciation, vocab, grammar
accent
just pronounciation
Southern Dialects
drawn out vowels
Northern Dialects
Dropping the R
Midwestern Dialects
merge vowel sounds
western dialects
fronted back vowels
totally = tewtally
African American vernacular english
reduce consonant clusters (old = ol)
delete suffix -s
phonological inversion (ask = aks)
Chicano english
sounds like s not a z
Puerto Rican English
final consonant deletion
cluster reduction
weak syllable deletion
Miami dialect
heavier l
fewer vowel sounds
jewish dialect
hard g
overaspiration of t sounds
pidgins
made up language so people who speak 2 different languages can communicate with each other
creoles
pidgin becomes creole is pidgin is passed down from generation to generation
dual language learners
learning two or more languages
bilingualism
children acquire their first two languages
simultaneous bilingualism
acquire two or more languages at the same time right from birth
