Child Language Acquisition Flashcards
Key Words
Order of precedence
The order in which male and female terms are placed in a pairing
Proto Word
These are made up words-like vocalisation that are used to by children to represent a word they can’t pronounce
Phonemic Expansion
This is when the number of phonemes produced increases (this happens during the babbling stage)
Phonemic Contractions
This is when the child narrows the range of phonemes to the one found in their native language
Phoneme
This is the smallest unit of sounds
Babbling
A stage of early language acquisition when a baby makes consonant-vowel or vowel-consonant sounds
at 6 months
Rhythm
This is the beat a language has
Intonation
This the melody or music of a language
Overextension
When a child uses a word to refer to multiple categories e.g every four-legged animal as ‘dog’
Under-extension
A child doesn’t use a word enough for particular cases
Consonant cluster
group of consonants with no vowels in-between
Diagraph
Two letters that combine together but make one sound
Graphemes
Letters in a language
Bilabial
A sound that is formed by the closure of the lips e.g ‘b’ ‘p’
Labio-dental
Consonants that are articulated with the lips and teeth