Child Language Acquisition Terminology Flashcards
Accommodation
The way that individuals adjust their speech patterns to match others.
Addition
The child adds something completely new into the pronunciation. There is a process of addition called diminutisation where a child adds a ‘y’ onto the end of words to make them diminutives.
Affricate
A phoneme which combines a plosive with an immediately following fricative of spirant sharing the same place of articulation.
Assimilation
The child used a sound from earlier or later in the word as it is easier to say.
Analogical overextension
The child applies a label to everything which is visually or physically similar.
Categorical overextension
The child applies a label to everything in a category.
Consonant cluster reduction
The child removed some consonant sounds from the word.
Deletion
The child removed a sound from the word altogether.
Echoing
Repeating what the child says.
Expansion
Development of the utterance into a longer, more meaningful form.
Expatiation
Sting what the child says but adding more information to it.
Mitigated imperatives
Instructions given in such a way as to appear as a gentle instruction.
Omission
A letter is missed from the word which should be there.
Perceptual discriminability
How well a child can understand differences.
Pseudo reading
The child retells a story but not always correctly.
Recasting
Commenting, extending and rephrasing of the utterance.
Reformulation
Repeating what the child says but in a different way.
Relational overextension
The child applies a label which is in some form related to the object.
Substitution
The child substitutes an easier phoneme in place of a harder one.
Zone of proximal development
Children have a cognitive deficiency, they need to understand things and have a gap of knowledge.
