Child's Language Development Flashcards
The study of development in child's language
Frisch, Large & Pisoni
“Phonotactic probability has been found to affect repetition latency”
Edwards, Beckman & Munson
“Difference in repetition accuracy between high and low frequency sequences of phonemes declines with age”
Waxman
“Preschool children succeed at object labelling long before other levels”
Mehler
“French and American infants are able to distinguish between utterances”
Brown, Cross & Wells
“Most important factor of child’s speech is adults extending topics”
Tizard & Hughes
“Children ask more questions than a teacher not asking questions”
Snow & Goldfield
“Middle class parents include children in rich discussions on character motives”
Cochran-Smith
“Teachers relate stories to a child’s own experiences”
Teale & Martinez
“Teachers are people that adopt children different reading styles”
Nelson & Bonvillian
“Younger children acquire unfamiliar words for unfamiliar object referents”
Huttenlocher
“First words are not systematic comprehensively”
Daneman & Case
“Semantic complexity influences coded world and affects comprehension”
Chomsky
“Children from birth have a distinctive knowledge of a grammar rule”
Pinker & Jackendoff
“Mechanisms for children have evolved from birth specifically for recursion”
Skinner
“Language learning is a passive approach involving praise and punishment methods”
Meltzoff
“Cross modal coordination helps children to distinguish perception from performance”
Piaget
“Language development extracts meaningful patterns as a result of a child learning about environments”
Vygotsky
“There is a constructivist exposure of vocabulary between thought and language”
McCall
“Children lack all aptitude to comprehend language”
Liebmann
“Insufficiency, mastering of singular words and word deafness are three sub types in children”
Palmer
“Universal grammar has evolved in children”
McNeill
“There is a division in children’s language between a knowledgeable universal base and transformational component”
Bloomfield
“Natural language is a totality of expressions meaning that communicative competence has no connections with performance”
Lakoff
“No one knows model social context of a child’s creativity”
Berko
“There is a procurement of plural and other inflectional morphemes in English children”
What is the Vegetative Stage?
Technical term for crying and natural uncreative sounds that a baby makes between 0-12 months
What is the Cooing Stage?
Early sign of communication in babies between 2-5 months where it uses basic repetitive vowel sounds and occasional consonant sounds
What is the Vocal Play Stage?
Intermediate stage where babies coo and babble at around 4-8 months
What is the Holophrastic Period?
Period that is marked by the formation of the first word or single word utterances
What is the Telegraphic Period?
Period where children begin to string words together in the form of a sentence, but using incomplete vocabulary
