Child Language Terminology Flashcards
What is Communicative Competence?
When a child forms accurate and understandable utterances using the grammar system, and understand social context for using them.
What is Overextension?
When is word is used more broadly to convey objects with similar properties, e.g Any round fruit may be called an “apple”.
What is Underextension?
When a word is used in a limited way and a child is unable to recognise its full meaning. E.g “Banana” is understood as being one is real life but no understanding this from a picture or a bunch of bananas.
What is a Virtuous Error?
An error in a child’s morphology that makes logical sense. E.g “runned”
What is Normal Non-Fluency?
A child’s hesitation in a sentence, whilst they are mentally preparing for a complex sentence.
What is a Consonant Cluster/Reduction?
Reducing phonological more complex units into simpler ones. E.g fish-fis dish-dis
What is Deletion?
When a child will omit a particular sound within a word. jamas-pajamas.
What is a Diminutive?
When a suffix is added to a word to make a word phonologically easier to say, e.g “doggie”.
What are Reduplicated Words?
When you repeat words.
What is Reduplication?
Repeating consonant clusters or vowel clusters in a word, e.g “snowwowman”
What is Substitution?
Swapping one sound for another which is easier to pronounce, e.g “wok-rock”.
What is Th-Fronting?
Replacing th- sounds, e.g “fink-think”, “vem-them”.
