final LSD Flashcards
horizontal expansion
addition of semantic features to definitions; makes definition more specific
vertical expansion
child learns the various meanings a given word may have
operational meaning
how it is used in a particular context
metalinguistic phenomnon
the more the child knows about life, the more he knows about language, the more skillfully and completely he will identify the components of the dictionary definitions
chunking
process of placing words into categories based on their semanitic relationships
sytagmatic paradigmatic shift
understand complete sentence but not individual meaning of each word until after 5 yrs
idiom
figurative expression peculiar to a particular language or group of people
proverb
popular wis saying or statement of truth
passive sentence
the noun is not performing the verb
principle of minimal distance
the preceding noun closest to the verb is treated as the subject of the sentence
embedding
sentences wehre the relative pronoun is deleted but understoond (elimination of “that”)
morphophonemic alterations
sound changes that occur when the base morpheme is changes (sign–signature)
morphophonemic alterations related to plurality
/s/ added to unvoiced sounds; /z/ added to voiced sounds
vowel shifting
pronounce– pronunciation
gerunds
change a verb to a noun and add -ing
agentive verb forms
take a verb and make into a “naming noun” (singer)
what is the most dramatic change in language development during the school years
pragmatics (use of language)
allophone
a nondistinctive speech sound change
phoneme
speech sound that is recognized as a specific sound and is different from all other speech sounds
distinctive features
features that differentiate phonemes
phonology
rules that determine how sounds can be sequenced into syllables and words
phonological process approach
designed to describe productions that vary from standard targets
phonological process
rules that children use to make productions easier
how many phonological processes are there?
nearly 40
coalescense
replacement of 2 adjacent phonemes with a single phoneme
epenthesis
addition of a sound
metathesis
transposition of sounds in a word
coarticulation
the influence sounds have on one another in context
babbling drift
child’s babbling drift into adult sounds