I. Typical Development

Question 1

What age is the perlocutionary stage?

Answer 1

0-8 months

Question 2

What age is the illocutionary stage?

Answer 2

8-12 months

Question 3

What age is the locutionary stage?

Answer 3

12-18 months

Question 4

What are some social behaviors occurring in the perlocutionary stage?

Answer 4

• cooing
• crying
• fussing
• laughing
• looking
• smiling

Question 5

What kind of communication skills develop in the illocutionary stage? and what are they?

Answer 5

• INTENTIONAL communication skills
• gaze
• gestures/pointing
• vocalization

Question 6

How many communicative acts per minute are occurring in the illocutionary stage?

Answer 6

2.5 communicative acts per minute

Question 7

What two types of functions of communication develop in the illocutionary stage?

Answer 7

• protoimperative

- protodeclarative

Question 8

During the locutionary stage what are TD child able to do?

Answer 8

-name where things are, what things are, and how they’re feeling

Question 9

When are a TD child’s first words spoken?

Answer 9

during the locutionary stage

Question 10

What is there a rapid increase of during the locutionary stage?

Answer 10

-spoken vocabulary

Question 11

When are children able to comprehend words that are not typical in their routines?

Answer 11

during the locutionary stage

in video clip: understood “balance”

Question 12

At 15 months, how many words does a child know?

Answer 12

3

Question 13

At 18 months, how many words does a child know?

Answer 13

50-100 words (+/- 50)

Question 14

How many communicative acts per minute does a child have in the locutionary stage?

Answer 14

3-5 acts per minute

Question 15

Do children in the locutionary stage have the same intents as protodelcaratives and protoimperatives in the illocutionary stage?

Answer 15

yes, but now instead of using gestures they’re using words

Question 16

How many words does a child speak between ages 18-24 months?

Answer 16

300 words (+/- 150)

Question 17

What kind of speech does a child have between 18-24 months?

Answer 17

telegraphic speech

Question 18

What are the pragmatic abilties of a child between 18-24 months?

Answer 18

• answer and ask questions

- take 1 to 2 turns per topic

Question 19

What is the primary deficit for a child with ASD?

Answer 19

communication!

Question 20

At 24 months what is a TD child’s language like?

Answer 20

• 300 words
• uses grammatical morphemes
• sentences (questions, negatives, etc…)
• 50-70% intelligibility

Question 21

By age 5, what is a TD child’s language like?

Answer 21

• 6,000 words
• mastered grammatical forms
• 4-6 word sentences
• 100% intelligible
• speech errors may persist (/r/, /l/, etc)

Question 22

What are TD pre-k pragmatics like?

Answer 22

• use language to accomplish social goals (turn taking, eye contact, good dialogue)
• range of functions increase (pretending, telling stories, talking about future, hypothesizing..)
• oral narratives emerge (have moologues and can tell stories, move from talking about here and now to there and then, can start to talk out of context, need less support from adults at this point)
• take longer turns and maintain topics for longer
• use polite forms (permission requests & directives “Can I…Could you… please”, Can use indirect requests)

Question 23

What is adolescent communication like?

Answer 23

• complex syntax

- advanced semantics

Question 24

What is an adolescent’s pragmatics like?

Answer 24

• narration
• persuade/negotiate
• sarcasm
• slang
• figurative language

Question 25

What is the purpose of social communication?

Answer 25

• exchange and express intentions
• indirectly control the environment
• regulate social interaction
• express an emotion or interact with someone
• receive and convey information and ideas

Question 26

What are the cognitive processes involved with language?

Answer 26

• attention (orientation & reaction)
• concept formation (encoding of information)
• management/executive function (cognitive strategies needed for a task; monitors feedback and outcomes to shift resources if needed)
• memory: (recall information previously learned)
• organization (organizing incoming sensory information)
• perception/discrimination: (identify stimuli based on relevant characteristics)
• problem-solving & transfer (generalization of learned material in solving similar but ‘novel’ problems)

Question 27

What is social referencing?

Answer 27

chid looks at the adult to make sure they are watching (infants prefer women’s voices esp. motherese)

Question 28

What is joint attention? (Courtney wrote: Joint Reference)

Answer 28

• emerges @ 9 months and well established @ 18 months
• child responding to other’s bid for joint attention
• child initiating joint attention

Question 29

What do protoimperatives lay the basis for?

Answer 29

commands and requests

ie: reaching or pointing to something

Question 30

What do protodeclaratives allow for?

Answer 30

allow the child to share things–calls the adult’s attention

(ie: showing parent toy that he wants parent to share attention with)

Question 31

In the perlocutionary stage, have children developed goals to pursue actions?

Answer 31

NO

although adults treat babies like they have a goal in mind

Question 32

What is social pragmatic theory?

Answer 32

children need to understand the communicative intentions of others