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1
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When do is the single-word phase?

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12-18m

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What are the most popular categories of first words in 50% of 12-18m infants?

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  • People
  • Animals
  • Toys/common objects
  • Body parts
  • Clothes
  • Foods
  • Social
  • Prepositions
  • Sounds
  • Descriptive
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3
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When do first words emerge?

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10-16m

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When do the first 50 words emerge?

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18-24m (6m after first words emerge)

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How is the distribution of the first 50 words?

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  1. Nouns and pronouns: 2/3, first

2. Relational verbs: 1/3

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When does the infant express 200 words and word combinations?

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By 24m

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What does the Overlap between Form, content and use represent?

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Integration to understand and transmit messages successfully

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What aspect of language does Speech sound disorder affect?

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Form (phonology)

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9
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What aspect of language does Language disorder affect?

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Form (morphology and syntax) and Content (semantics)

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10
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What aspect of language does Social comm disorder affect?

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Use (pragmatics)

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How do the 3 aspects of language apply to first words?

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Form: how word is used
Content: word/sentences to express a variety of meanings
Use: variety of comm functions

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12
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When do infants demonstrate word comprehension for common nouns?

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6-9m

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13
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What are the typical categories infants comprehend?

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“Food” and “Body”

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14
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After how many repetitions do infants learn nouns for highly salient objects?

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5

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15
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Around how many words do 10m infants understand?

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10

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What are the different word classes that early vocabulary comprise of?

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  • Nouns
  • Verbs
  • Socio-pragmatic words
  • Words for routines/situations
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17
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What are the steps in collecting single word data?

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  1. Gather
  2. Sort
  3. Analyse
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18
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What type of context does single word data sampling require?

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Natural

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19
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What are the ways one can observe a child to gather single word data?

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  • In person
  • Telehealth
  • Playing with parent, sibling, peer or yourself
20
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What are the pros and cons of gathering single word data by sampling in a natural context?

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Pro: Spontaneous, natural
Con: Child may not speak

21
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What are the other forms of gathering single word data?

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  • Caregiver report / interview
  • Diaries
  • Parent report tools
22
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What are some of the main parent tools for gathering single word dataa?

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  1. Language Development survey (Rescoria, 1989)
  2. McArthur-Bates Communication Development Index (Fenson et al., 1993)
  3. Singapore Communicative Development Inventories: Words and Gestures (Tan, 2009)
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What are some of the features of the LDS 1989?

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  • INCLUDES words not pronounced correctly
  • DOES NOT INCLUDE words child understands but doesnt say
  • parent writes down examples of sentences
  • 310w
  • 14 semantic categories
  • parents check off each word that child says spontaneously
  • identifies language delay at 2y
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What are some of the features of the McArthur-Bates Communication Development Index 1993?

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  • 680ww
  • 22 semantic categores (+grammar)
  • Receptive and Expressive language
  • Gestures
  • Adapted in other countries/languages
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What are Phonetically Consistent Forms (PCFs)?
Not close in sound to actual word but used consistently
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When do babbles start to change to jargon?
Around 11-12m
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When do babbles/jargons disappear?
Around 20m
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When gathering single word data, what are the 2 other categories to consider?
1. Gestures/signs | 2. Sound shapes (phonological representation)
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Why are phonological representations useful?
Therapy
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How do we deal with the problem of caregivers not remembering words a child has said, esp aft 10-15wo mark?
Ask for key target words
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Why do we clarify single word data by asking caregivers?
- Check that child really owns the word | - Ensure caregiver is not only reporting words said clearly
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What is Overextension?
One word fits all: same word refers to a number of different objects
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What is Underextension?
Same word as restricted concept
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What are the 9 early categories we use to sort single word data?
1. Existence (ob) 2. Nonexistence (ob) 3. Recurrence (ob) 4. Rejection (ob) 5. Action (ob) 6. Locative Action (ob) 7. Possession (op) 8. Attribution (op) 9. Denial (op)
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What does Existence refer to?
Nouns or pronouns for labelling
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What does Nonexistence refer to?
Negation entailing disappearance/absence of object/event/expected action
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What does Recurrence refer to?
- Reappearance of an object (more, another) | - Another instance of an event (again)
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What does Rejection refer to?
- Refusal of object | - Opposing of event
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What does Action refer to?
- Action verbs | - Movements of people/obj with NO change in location
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What does Locative Action refer to?
Verbs that describe movement of a person/obj from one place to another
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What does Possession refer to?
Particular object associated with a particular person - Ownership
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What does Attribution refer to?
Description of state of an object
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What does Denial refer to?
Negation of identity, state or event expressed in prior utterance
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What are the ages of acquisition of the less common first words?
``` Eat, go, sit - 19m Give me - 22m More - 20m All gone - 19m Mine - 19m Wanna - 23m ```
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What are the 3 categories we have to further divide the 9 earlier categories?
1. Productive (more than 3 words) - no need to work on 2. Emerging (1-2 words) - caregiver's goal 3. Absent - therapy goal
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What is a Kangaroo word?
A word that contains a synonym inside it

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