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 stage 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)
refers to how the sound is modified along the vocal tract for consonants
manner of articulation (pg.82)
refers to whether or not there is vocal fold vibration during sound production for consonants
voicing (pg.82)
___ are characterized by lingual height and anterior=posterior lingual posture in the oral cavity
vowels (pg.82)
True/False: Vowels are often voiced
False
vowels are always voiced
(pg.82)
_____ is the frequency with which certain sound sequences occur in a language
phonotactic probability (pg. 82)
sound sequences comprised of rare phonotactic probability occur….
infrequently (pg.82)
sound sequences comprised of common phonotactic probability sequences occur…
frequently (pg.82)
awareness of phonotactic probabilities emerges at approximately what age?
9 months of age (pg.82)
the early sound repertoire includes what phonemes?
/p,b,t,d,g,k,h,m,w,n/ (pg.82)
children are more likely to attempt t say new words that contain phonemes that are
a. already in their phonological repertoire
b. not in their phonological repertoire
A (pg.82)
_____ is a pattern of speech production in which a child simplifies the adult form of a production
phonological process (pg.82)
True/False: phonological processes have a typical course of use and resolution
True (pg.82)
in the preschool years, children emerge with awareness that words can be deconstructed into phonological parts (sounds, syllables): this is referred to as…
phonological awareness (pg.82)
how do phonological awareness skills begin? and what do they evolve into?
rhyming and evolve to identifying the first sound of words, sound comparison between words and segmentation of words into smaller parts (pg.82)
______ is strongly correlated with reading and writing skill development
phonological awareness (pg. 83)
___ encompasses the rules for learning and using words, word combinations and higher-level meaning units (e.g idioms, metaphor and other types of figurative language in the school-age years)
semantics (pg.83)
what is long term semantic memory referred to as?
lexicon (pg.83)
___ happens when the initial association or link between the word label and meaning is made as stored in memory
fast mapping (pg.83)
what is QUIL ?
- quick incidental learning
- reflects the more naturally occurring word learning situations that offer minimal support in ongoing scenes
(pg. 83)
_____ refers to the learning that occurs during the protracted period of word learning after fast mapping has occurred
slow mapping (pg.83)
True/False: richer representations of words result from less frequently experience and high-quality experience with the word
- False
- richer representations of words result from more frequent experience
___ are more easily learned than other word classes
-nouns (pg.83)
___ take more exposure to learn than ___ most likely because a more subtle inference needs to be made about ___ from ongoing events
verbs, nouns, verbs (pg.83)
in korean and german, where cultural practice or structure of the language promotes ____ over ___ learning
verb, noun (pg.83)
____ refers to sound representation
phonological representatnions (pg.83)
___ refers to word label representations
lexical representations (pg.83)
______ of a word refers to the number of possible words that differ by one phoneme from it
neighborhood density (pg.83)
- example “cat”
- sat, pat, can, cute, coat
______ refer to meaning or conceptual representation
semantic representations (pg.84)
_____ is the lexical representation variable that influences word learning
neighborhood density (pg.84)
why are words in a dense neighborhood easier to learn?
- because it has many connections between words
- but it may be more difficult to perceive or retrieve that word for production because of interference activation from those same neighbors (pg.84)
what helps with fast and slow mapping?
- enriching the quality of word exposure
- richer semantic representations support word retrieval to name words
- weaker semantic representations may support recognition of the word but they are often associated with error wth the child attempts to name it
(pg. 84)
the capacity of the ________ is the component of working memory that is strongly associated with word learning
the phonological loop (pg.84)
the _______ encodes maintains and manipulates speech-based information
phonological loop (pg.84)
what is the gold standard measure of the phonological loop?
nonword repetition (pg.84)
children who are better at what tend to have larger vocabularies?
repeating nonword (pg.84)
how is the semantic system organized?
is hierarchically organized with superordinate, ordinate, and subordinate words (pg.84)
children’s first words are ____ terms
ordinate terms (pg.84)
what word a vulnerable to retrieval errors when naming?
word that are fast mapped or infrequently encountered (pg.84)
children without language impairments make the same types and patterns of word retrieval error, but children with language impairments make…
many more errors overall (pg.84)
when do infants vocalize predominately vowel-like sounds?
before 4-months of age (pg.84)
between ___ and __ months of age, infants string together CV combinations that eventually become more complex in structure
-4-6 months (pg.84)
complex babbling is referred to as…
variegated babble (pg.84)
True/False: sounds heard in variegated babbling do not tend to occur in first words
False
they do tend to occur in first words
(pg.84)
when does jargon emerge?
10 months (pg.84)
at 10 months of age, infants understand how many words ?
10 words (pg.84)
when do first words emerge?
around the first birthday
when do first words emerge?
around the first birthday (pg.84)
how big is the expressive vocabulary around 15 months?
10 words (pg.84)