CLA: Holophrastic Stage Flashcards
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Holophrastic stage
Holophrastic Stage
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- The child conveys a whole sentence worth of meaning in just a single word or labels things in the environment around them.
- It is different from a child’s babble
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Holophrase
Holophrastic Stage
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- A single word which expresses a whole idea.
- Can be declaritive, exclamative, interrogative or imperative.
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Noun bias
Holophrastic Stage
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The number of nouns exceeds the number of other word classes in the child’s early vocabulary.
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Overextenstion
Holophrastic Stage
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- When a word is used more broadly to describe things with similar properties as well as the specific item to which the word actually applies.
- e.g. rats, squirrels and rabbits = Mice. Any round fruit may be an ‘Apple,’
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Underextenstion
Holophrastic Stage
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- When a word is used in a limited way which does not recognise it’s full meaning.
- e.g. knowing the word banana for a physical one but not for a bunch of bananas or a picture of a banana.)
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Hypernym
Holophrastic Stage
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- Describes a broad term, for example cutlery, or dog.
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Hyponym
Holophrastic Stage
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- A more specialised and specific word.
- For example: Spoon would be a hyponym of cutlery and labrador would be a hyponym of dog.
8
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Gestalt expression
Holophrastic Stage
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- Compressing a string of words into a single utterance as the child has not been able to segment the lexis.
- e.g. ‘what’s that? = ‘wassat?’
- It is argued that these are constructions whoch the child is using as units of language.
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Segment
Holophrastic Stage
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- The perception of the boundries between words.
- This is a skill which is gradually acquired.
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Comprehension
Holophrastic Stage
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- The ability to understand language
- May differ from how much an individual can produce.
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Production
Holophrastic Stage
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- The language which people produce.
- May differ from what an individual understands.
