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Child Language Acquisition Flashcards

1
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Phonetics

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individual speech sounds (IPA)

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Phonology

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sounds systems & patterns of sounds of a language

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Phoneme

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distinct unit of sound

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IPA

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international phonetic alphabet / / symbols

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Prosodic Features (PIVOTS)

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Pitch
Intonation
Volume
Tempo
Stress

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Place of articulation (phonology)

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  • articulators in our mouth (lips, tongue, teeth)
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Connected Speech Processes

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elision
assimilation
insertion
vowel reduction

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Learning

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intentional process
presupposes teaching
teacher controls pace

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Aquisition

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subconscious, natural process, learner controlled, does not presuppose teaching

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10
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CLA

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  • follows a predictable sequence
  • age varies
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Pre-verbal age gap

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0-3 months

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Pre-verbal Signs

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  • responses differ from primary caregiver to others
  • engage in turn taking skills
  • means of communication: crying, for different needs
  • vowel sounds
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13
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Babbling age gap

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3 - 12 months

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Babbling signs

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  • produce range of speech signs (mostly vowels) deliberately
  • recognise un/familiar sounds and smile
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Babbling (4-6months)

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  • respond to change in tone/no
  • vocal play - sounds like talking
  • reduplication
  • stops & nasal sounds
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Babbling (7-12 months)

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  • connection: meaning & words emerging
  • recognition of objects
    -respond to direction
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Holophrastic/One word age gap

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12 - 18 months

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One word stage features

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  • discover connections between word & meaning
  • one word take place of whole sentence
  • choose nouns & verbs that give most info
  • learn names of familiar objects/people
  • aware of social value of speech
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Two words stage age gap

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1-2 years

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Two-word stage features

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  • form two-word utterance
  • understand word order
  • talk in 3rd person often
  • no inflectional morphology, articles & preposition
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Two-word stage vocabulary

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50-200 words

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Multi-word/telegraphic stage age gap

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2-3 years

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Multi-word stage features

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  • usually missing function words
  • question words
  • some inflectional morphology
  • family members usually understand
  • understand commands
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Multi-word stage vocabulary

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200-1000 words

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Later multi-word stage age gap

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3-4 years

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Later multi-word stage features

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  • longer sentences
  • usually fluent/reasonably clear
  • talk about things not in immediate environment
  • use lg creatively
  • some plural/past tense
  • pronouns used correctly
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Later multi-word stage vocabulary

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900-1000+

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Phonetics & Phonology CLA

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  • vowels first
  • CVCV structure
  • prosody acquired as language develops
  • parentese (train: choo-choo)
  • modify/substitute sounds to what they have already aquired
  • blend reduction
  • insertion
  • deletion: unstressed sounds
  • reduplication
  • assimilation (voiced/voiceless)
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Morphology & Lexicology CLA

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  • rule learning
  • errors: acquire rules first then overgeneralize
  • limited vocabulary -> play with dev. morphology (i broomed it up)
  • creative process
  • the wug test: plural formation
  • order of grammatical morphology
30
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Order of grammatical morphology

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  1. ‘ing’ present progressive
  2. ‘in, on’ prepositions
  3. ’s’ plural inflection
  4. ‘went’ irregular past tense
  5. ’-‘s’ possessive
  6. copular ‘to be’
  7. articles
  8. regular past tense ‘-ed’
  9. regular present tense
  10. irregular present tense
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Syntax CLA

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  • acquire sense of words order in two+ word stage
  • complex structures begin just after two-word stage
  • negation
    -questions
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Syntax CLA - negation

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  1. negative (no/not) + rest of sentence
  2. NP + -ve + VP
    - learn don’t/can’t as alternatives
  3. NP + aux + -ve + rest of sentence
    - recognition of aux + -ve
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Syntax CLA - questions

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  • rising intonation (phonology)
  • Wh - questions formed without auxiliary unless contracted
  • inversion of s + auxiliary: unnatural feature of English
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Overgeneralization

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children use a lexeme to refer to anything that shares similar characteristics

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Undergeneralization

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children use lexemes too specifically

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Semantics CLA

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  • overgeneralization
  • undergeneralization
  • understanding of semantic field by school -> helps with acquisition
  • synonym & antonymy common features (Stores)
37
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Critical period

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0-12/puberty

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