Child language features Flashcards
What is the difference between nature and nurture?
Nature is that the children are born with being able to understand and learn language independently. Nurture is that parents teach language to children.
What is deletion?
Babies miss out consonants at the end of words. ‘ca’ rather ‘cat’.
What is substitution?
Babies substitute one sound for another.’ tat’ instead for ‘cat’.
What is addition?
Babies often add an extra vowel to end of a word.
What is reduplication?
Babies repeat whole syllables.
What is constant cluster reduction?
Babies miss out a consonant when they occur in groups. ‘pider’ instead of ‘spider’.
What is deletion of unstressed syllables?
‘banana’ becomes ‘nana’.
What is plosive?
Block the air then suddenly release it. ‘Pop’
What is fricative?
The air leaks out through a small opening. ‘FOX/SNAKE’
What is nasal?
The mouth is sealed and the air comes out of the nose. ‘NONE/MUM’
What is stop?
You allow the air to flow then stop it. ‘back’
What is affricate?
Starts like a plosive with the air blocked then it leaks out like fricative?
What are the early developing sounds?
Bilabial and Alveolar sounds.
What are the late developing sounds?
Fricative and Dental sounds.
What is a protowords?
Where babies start to produce real sound and words.
What are the stages?
- Protowords
- Holophrastic
- Two word
- Telegraphic
- Post telegraphic
What did Katherine Nelson study?
She studied babies first 50 words. 60% for babies first words are naming things.
What are the groups that Nelson find?
- Personal
- Action
- Naming
- Modifying
What do children learn in the telegraphic stage?
- Simple Present
- Negative sentences
- Asking questions
- Determiners
What do children learn in the post-telegraphic stage?
They learn morphemes. Morphemes are 2 types. Free morphemes which are words that can stand alone. Bound morphemes are when you change meaning by adding ‘s’ or ‘ed’.
What are Virtuous error?
Grammatical errors but it shows that children have learnt the rules but do not know the exceptions.
What is children directed language?
- Repetition
- Repeated sentence structures
- Re-casting
- Expansion
- Simple sentences
- Fewer past tense
- Proper nouns
- Concreate nouns and dynamic verbs
- One word phrases
