Child language Flashcards
(38 cards)
What is communicative competence?
The ability to form accurate and understandable utterances, using the grammar system and to understand social context for using them
What are proto words?
Made up words that a child will use to represent a word they might not be able to pronounce yet
What is the pre-verbal stage?
A period of time that involves experimenting with noises and sounds but without producing recognisable words (this usually goes on for the first year of the childs life.
What is cooing?
It is distinct from crying but not yet forming recognisable vowels and consonants.
What is babbling?
Vocal play that involves forming vowel and consonant sounds which can be reduplicated or variegated
What is the holophrastic stage?
The point in a childs development when a child uses just individual words to communicate
What is non-verbal communication?
all the ways in which communication occurs without using language.
What is reduplication?
Repeated syllables within a word.
What are diminutives?
The reduction in scale of an item through the way this word is created.
What is addition?
Adding an additional suffix to the end of a word in order to change the way in which the word is pronounced and interpreted.
What is the two word stage?
The period of time when a child begins to put two words together
What is the telegraphic stage?
Period of time when a childs utterances will be three or more words
What are content words?
Words within a sentence that are vital to convey meaning
What are grammatical words?
Words within a sentence that are necessary to demonstrate structural accuracy
What is the post telegraphic stage?
Period of time when a childs language will include both content and grammatical words more closely resemble adult speech
What is operant conditioning?
The idea that either positive or negative response given by a caregiver and can influence the way the child speaks in future occasions
What is positive reinforcement?
The positive feedback a caregiver gives to a child which encourages similar performance again
What is negative reinforcement?
The lack of feedback, correction or negative feedback that might prevent a child from making the same error repeatedly
What is the LAD?
The idea that all humans are born with an innate language learning capacity (Chomsky)
What is universal grammar?
(Term coined by Chomsky) The notion that all human languages possess similar grammatical properties.
Piaget
Cognitive development
Skinner
Positive and negative reinforcement
Chomsky
Language acquisition device and universal grammar
Bruner
Language Acquisition Support System
