Childrens Language Development (test) Flashcards
Who theorised that babies become acclimatised to native sounds in the womb?
Mehlier (1978)
Name the 5 stages of language acquisition
Preverbal, holophrastic, Two word, telegraphic, post-telegraphic
What noises are considered biological noises?
Vomiting, crying etc.
How did crystal (1986) describe cooing and laughing?
Quieter, lower pitch, melodic
What are the alternative names for cooing?
Mewing
Which type of sound is the most common during the babbling stage?
Bilabial
What is the difference between reduplication and variegated babbling?
reduplication: where the same vowel or constant combination is repeated
variegated: where different vowel or constant combination is repeated
Define phonemic contraction and when this typically occurs
the number of phonemes produced reduces (preverbal stage)
Typically at what age does a child say their first word?
1 year
Name Katherine Nelson’s (1973) 4 categories for a child’s first word
1) personal/ social
2) actions/ events
3) modifying things
4) naming things
Define overextension
Using a specific word for a generalised noun
What is the difference between analogical and categorical overextension?
Analogical: similar properties
Categorical: same category
At what age does the two-word stage begin?
18-24 months
What are ‘pivot words’ and who theorised this concept?
words that can be applied in many ways and allow for vocabulary extension, George brane
In 1973, who theorised that there was a particular semantic relationship between word choice and structure
Roger brown
At what age does the telegraphic stage begin?
24-30 months
Which 4 lexical classes are omitted the most during this stage of development? (24-30 months)
Auxiliary, articles, conjunctions and prepositions
Define virtuous error
Overgeneralise rules of grammar
Who pioneered the WUG test and what did they find?
Jean Berko, found children to apply rules of making words plural on a nonsense word wug
Define child directed speech
The speech a caregiver uses to aid the child’s speech development
Who found that children whose mothers talk more have larger vocabularies?
Clarke-Stewart
What did brown et al mean by ‘truth value’?
Parents respond to children if what they said is true- not if it is grammatically correct
What conclusion did snow and Ferguson (1977) make about CDS?
Positive correlation between expansion/recasts and syntactic development
Name the 3 E models of CDS
Elicit, elucidate, elaborate
