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exam 2 Flashcards

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critical period

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there is a biologically determined period during which a behavior must appear

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what are some things that would provide proof of a sensitive period for language learning?

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children unexposed to language (do not develop syntax), children who are deaf born to hearing parents, second language studies

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what are some non-biological factors that could affect language acquisition throughout the lifespan?

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education level, environment (learning: classroom vs. immersion), social psychosocial factors (role in the family, personality)

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Which aspects of language development are most strongly related to genetics?

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-genetics: predictive of rate of acquisition of language, rate of language disorder, grammar/syntax
-environment: lexical/vocab development

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social gating

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the social function of language ‘gates’ children’s attention which allows them to learn

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what were the results of studies on the language outcomes of infants who were exposed to live interaction and audio visual media of a speaker of a different language?

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live social interactions: infants display skills of native speaker; audio-visual (recording): infants display same ability as having no exposure; interaction has important connotation in language learning

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joint attention

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when an adult and child are looking at same thing and “mutually engaged”

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gaze following

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child looks where person looks (around 10-15 mo)

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gaze leading

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eye gaze, communicative pointing (10mo-1 yr)

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conventional gestures

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: culturally agreed upon meaning (nodding, shaking head no, appear just before emergence of words)

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spontaneous gestures

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symbolic communication created by children- predicts vocab & syntax development (ex: blow on food- hot, open & close hand- give me)

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evidence that children can read intentions of others?

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-missed string in a cup experiment: can imitate correct behavior by 18 mo
-used for language learning: new labels go to what adult is looking at, not child (around 24 months)

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what do infant visual stimuli looking time measures tell us about mental categorization?

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infants are actively forming categories of things/objects- can differentiate between rectangles and a circle

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high amplitude sucking paradigm

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sucking rate increases (dishabituation) with new sound if it is heard as different

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habituation

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become acclimated to (bored of)

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dishabituation

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regain interest in stimuli

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headturn paradigm

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uses pavlovian (classical conditioning) responses (ex: turning head when hearing “da” rather than “pa”

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preferential looking & eye tracking

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looking in a certain direction to relay preference; device used to track pupils/eye movements

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what are some of babies’ preferences at birth?

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i. Language > other audio
ii. Mother’s voice to other women
iii. Stories they’ve heard in the womb
iv. Native language

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when does the shift from being a “universal” vs. “language specific” listeners?

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around 1 yr

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true or false: infants can create categories of objects and animals by 4-6 mo.

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true

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path

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how infants recognize and categorize motion events- the direction the agent moves in (prepositions)- not mandatory/optional

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manner

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how infants recognize and categorize motion events- the way the agent moves (jumping, bouncing, skipping) (verbs)

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what do infants use to differentiate between objects

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adjectives and nouns

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statistical learning

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counting the frequency with which one stimulus is followed by another

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statistical learning and identifying syntactic rules

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abstract patterns that can apply to any stimuli (Ex: the dog was running, the boy was playing  the X was _Y_ing)

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how old were the infants in the rule learning (syntactic patterns) study?

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7 mo- could tell the difference

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phonological memory

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capacity to remember newly encountered sound sequences

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how can you test phonological memory

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Non-word how do you repetition task: grall, brasterer- words get longer w/ more phonemes

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better phonological memory, better …

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vocab, grammar, second language learning- predictive of language abilities

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central executive

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executive functions – allocates mental resources among competing demands.

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central executive

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executive functions – allocates mental resources among competing demands.

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what is poor central executive indicative of?

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language disorders (Developmental Language Disorder) and trouble with sentence comprehension

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what is the benefit of naps for infants and preschoolers?

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infants- improve retention of statistical learning
preschoolers- improves retention of new words

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frequent frames

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a couple of set words that have verry few words that vary between them- cue syntactic categories 9ex: “ you ____ (verb) it)”, “the ___ (noun) is”)

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prosody

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melody of speech, stress patterns

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Prosodic and phonological bootstrapping and 2 methods

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use prosody and phonology to learn syntax or word meaning
1. Nouns vs verbs in syllable stress (‘record vs. re’cord)
2. Pauses at phrase boundaries (“the fuzzy brown bear|walked to the store”)

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attributes of infant directed speech

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higher and wider range of pitch, shorter phrases and slower tempo, longer more prototypical vowels, highlight particular vowels

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what are the benefits of Infant Directed Speech (IDS)

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preferred by infants and improves phonological processing

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example of expansion

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kid- “shoes!” parent- “ you need your shoes?”

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example of reframing

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kid- “I not did it”; Mom: “You didn’t?”; Zoe: “I didn’t did it”

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41
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parents are “ _____ _____” at birth

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conversational partners

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true or false: Children whose mothers are less responsive to their communication, have better language earlier

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false (responses to crying and following kid’s attention promotes language development)

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what are 3 ways quality of maternal input can be measured

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range of vocab, complexity of sentences, chances for child to respond (conversational terms)

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quantity of maternal input

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more speech that children hear spoken to them –> higher vocab

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what are the major findings from Hart & Risley (1994)

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children of parents w/ higher socioeconomic status (SES) have higher vocabularies because they hear significantly more words

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avocado example

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  • Low SES- “you wouldn’t like that”
  • “higher SES- “that’s an avocado, remember we had that other day- it was guacamole and you didn’t like it”- more language learning
47
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directives

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ex: “pick that up now”- associated w/ low SES high stress households- less language learning

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directives vs. eliciting speech

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directives: low SES; eliciting speech “what do we do after playing?”- higher SES and more language acquisition

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responsiveness in availability of language

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label what kid’s attend to and respond to kid’s communications, babble, and speech

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phonological knowledge

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the ability to recognize and manipulate the spoken parts of sentences and words

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phones

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different sounds a language uses

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how many phones are possible and how many dos each language use on avg.?

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200; 45

53
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phoneme

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perceptually distinct unit of sound in a specific language that distinguishes one word from another (think minimal pairs- /bIt/ vs /pIt/

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allophones

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sounds that occur in a language that do not differentiate language (English: aspirated vs. unaspirated p)

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distinctive feature

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sound that carries meaning

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how do adults represent speech sound?

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process language on the phoneme level

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how do we know adults represent speech sound on the phoneme level

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onset and rhythms, manipulate sounds, spoonerisms (sound switching errors)

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phonotactic knowledge

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constraints on sound sequences (ex: “gn” in german & italian but not english

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phonological rules

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rules about how sounds go together in a language

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voicing assimilation

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consonants match in voicing (“wugs” vs “blicks”)

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phonetic feature

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The elements making up and distinguishing phones are phonetic features (height, backness, frontness, stop, etc.)

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articulatory phonetics

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speech sounds and how they are pronounced

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what differentiates vowels and consonants?

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consonants: how airflow is obstructed; vowels: airflow is not obstructed

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manner of articulation

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how airflow is obstructed (stops and fricatives)

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place of articulation

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where airflow is obstructed (bilabial, etc.)

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voicing

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time vocal chords start vibrating relative to release of air (voiceless vs. voiced)

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why are vowels difficult for children to differentiate and categorize?

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varied between speakers; high frequency helps infants

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What are vegetative sounds? When do they first occur?

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accompany biological functions (cry, burp, etc.); occurs at BIRTH

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what advances in phonological production are made btwn 16-30 wks?

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cooing and vocal play

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cooing & brain devlopment?

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vowels (when happy, social); development of limbic system –> emotion

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what is vocal play?

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increase in types of sounds- all babies sound the same (16-30 wks)

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canonical babbling

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true syllables “bababa” (6-9 mo)

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jargon

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babbling with prosody (ex: twins talking video) (ab 10 mo)

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nonreduplicated babbling

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range and type of sound increase (not just the same syllable over and over

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babbling drift

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sounds like native language

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why is babbling drift important and when does it occur

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importance: environment influence- when do babies recognize/recreate native sounds

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how does prosody play a role in babbling drift?

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differences at 9 mo in prosody (comprehension)

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What do cross-linguistic studies and research with children who are deaf tell us about the phonological production that occurs between 6 and 9 months?

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canonical babbling is rare in babies who are deaf- deaf children often stop babbling (importance in hearing experience)

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Language specific babbling was tested using 2 different methodologies. Explain these two studies.

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study 1: adult french raters listened to babbling from babies learning different languages- novice raters detected french sounds at 8 mo, expert: 6 mo. RESULTS: babbling drift occurs from 6-9 mo

study 2: experts identified vowels and consonants in babbling- differences at 9 mo in prosody. RESULTS: babbling drift6-9 mo

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when do first words emerge?

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about 52 wks

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how is physical growth related to speech sound development?

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vocal tract- smaller, different shape- muscles developing (ex: tongue); facial skeleton getting larger

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how is brain development related to speech sound development?

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limbic system (emotion-cooing); motor cortex (moving muscles etc. to produce speech sounds)

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how is experience related to speech sound development

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hearing self to learn (ex: deaf children often stop babbling)

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how do newborns represent speech sounds in comprehension

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syllable level (ex: ba vs. bu- 1 difference, ba vs. du- 2 differences)

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when do people start to represent speech sounds on the phonemic level?

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3 mo. (/b/ /a/- individual phonemes)

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what are some early errors in word production?

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reduplication- ball –> baba
deletion of weak syllable- banana –> nana
stops –> fricative- see –> tee

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“whole word”

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first words are represented as whole words in production- adults have representations of phonemes

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phonological idioms

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child produces sound correctly in one word, but mispronounces in another (‘wa-bit” but “rag”)

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perception vs. production

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hear errors in others that they produce

90
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when is phonology mastered?

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by 7 yrs (mostly by 4)- excludes phonological awareness (individual’s awareness of phonetic structure

91
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mental lexicon

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mental dictionary of words you know

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lexical selection

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early words biased towards phonemes kids can produce (“mama” vs. “mother”)

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word

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arbitrary symbol- stands for something w/o being part of it (arbitrary: no specific rule about sounds of word/what word refers to)

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reference

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symbol standing for a whole concept (ex: grass, human reference of outside vs. dog’s understanding (walk))

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mental lexicon

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mental dictionary- includes semantics (word mearning)

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first word production?

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10-15 mo. (ab 52 wks)

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context-bound words

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tied to particular context (dog is my corgi in the backyard- no other dog in no other situation)

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referential words

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not bound to specific use (has a reference for word) (dog is my corgi and pic of dog in book, and neighbor’s dog, etc.)

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What is the overall pattern of referential and context bound words in young children and how does this change with age?

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slowly context-bound –> referential over time

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50 word point

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50 sounds most common in children’s babble also most common sounds in children’s 50 first words

101
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make up of early vocabulary?

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nominals (nouns)- noun bias
action words- up, go
modifiers- allgone, pretty
personal social words- no, want
grammatical function words- what, is

102
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human simulation study

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mom interacting w/ toddler- bleeped out nouns & verbs
task- name missing words
RESULTS: nouns: 45% missing nouns, 15% missing verbs
many more possible meanings for verbs

103
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natural partitions theory

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noun bias is caused by the nature of things in the word to labeled- objects are easier to categorize than verbs, adj., etc.

104
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relational relativity hypothesis

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nouns are more consistent across languages than verbs, adjectives, etc. (ex: “Wikipedia, the FREE encyclopedia”)

105
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verb embedded

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present in noun-bias languages (she hit him)

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verb final

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present in no noun-bias languages (she him hit)

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noun drop languages

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don’t need noun (ex: puedes ir vs. tu puedes ir)

108
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What is different about parent interactions in different cultures that could lead to less of a noun bias in some languages?

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english- label objects
mandarin- label actions (verbs)

109
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overextentions

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using a word too broadly (dog for all 4 legged animals)

110
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underextensions

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using word too narrowly (dog = only my dog fluffy)

111
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When do children show more advanced production than comprehension in word meaning? Give an example.

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produce some words they don’t fully understand (ex: uncle- that guy that comes over

112
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word spurt

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around 50 words (15-20 mo) inc. in word learning (some kids have big inc., some more linear)

113
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what are some possible causes of individual differences in vocabulary growth?

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sex, birth order, SES, phonological memory

114
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speech segmentation

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statistical learning using phonological cues (stress patterns)

115
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find referent in environment

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ex: what does gavagai mean when someone points at rabbit

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lexical constraints

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guides child by constraining possible interpretations of new words- whole object assumption and mutual exclusivity assumption

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