Early Language Development Flashcards
What are the language domains?
- form
- content
- use
(pg. 80)
what does effective use of language to communicate require?
a broad understanding of human interaction, including nonverbal cues, motivation and sociocultural roles
(pg.80)
what state of pragmatic development is between birth-8-months, adults inferencing communicative intent from unintentional, vegetative behaviors such as the infant’s cough or burp?
perlocutionary stage (pg.80)
what stage is between 8-12 months, use of gestures and vocalizations but no words to express intentions to communicate, infants show objects and shortly after give objects over t adults to initiate interactions, infants use rituals and pointing
illocutionary stage (pg. 80)
what stage is between 12 months and beyond, use words to express intentions to communicate, gestures and other nonverbal behaviors become integrated with spoken language
locutionary state (pg.80)
what are pragmatic skills that present in infancy that are the foundation for the social use of language?
- eye contact
- turn-taking
- joint attention
(pg. 80)
____ refers to how language and other behaviors accomplish things in the world
intention (pg.81)
what are the speech acts that are used by infants and toddlers?
- requesting action
- naming
- protesting
- greeting
- repeating
- calling
- practicing
- answering
(pg. 81)
what are speech acts expressed by preschoolers?
- requesting permission
- acknowledging
- asking questions
- making jokes
- retelling a story
- suggesting
- indirect requesting
(pg. 81)
when do iconic gestures and conventional gestures emerge?
at the time of first words (pg.81)
when do gestures start to become integrated with spoken language?
by 2 years of age (pg.81)
a ____ is a decontextualized monologue that conveys a story, personal recount or retelling of book or movie told to a listener with little support for the speaker
narrative (pg. 81)
what type of narrative do 2 year olds tell?
proto-narratives ( characterized by related utterances that do not require sequencing) (pg.81)
A _____ is a dialogue between 2 communicative partners
conversation (pg.81)
when do conversations emerge? and when are they refined?
toddlerhood; preschool years (pg.81)
A ______ is characterized by self-conversation during focused goal directed activities with no desire to involve other
monologue (pg.81)
when do monologues appear?
during preschool (pg.81)
when does expository discourse emerge?
in school age children (pg.81)
what are cohesion devices?
- pronouns
- conjunctions
- make communication efficient in early preschool (pg.81)
____ refers to deleting already said information even if it results in an ungrammatical sentences
-ellipsis (pg.81)
____ are words or gestures that rely on context to glean their meaning
- deixis (pg.81)
- such as pointing and using personal or other pronouns (this, that, here, there)
the ability to take the listeners point of view including what they may believe, know, or feel
-theory of mind (pg.82)
what is the smallest linguistic unit that signals difference in word meaning?
-phoneme (pg.82)
refers to where the articulators approximate each other to create sound source for consonants
place of articulation (pg.82)