Intro to Language Development Midterm

Question 1

How do other aspects of communication contribute to our interpretation of language?

Answer 1

Body language, pitch, paralinguistic things, tone, etc.

Question 1

What do generativisits believe regarding language development? What do interactionists believe?

Answer 1

Nature vs. nurture

Question 2

What is a phoneme?

Answer 2

Smallest unit of sound that still has meaning

Question 3

A child overgeneralizes the past tense ending -ed, what domain would this language deficit fall in?

Answer 3

Morphology

Question 4

Explain and give an example of semantics:

Answer 4

Meaning of words (vocab)
When interacting different types of people sometimes you use different types of language
Such as I don’t cuss around my parents but i do around my friends

Question 5

If someone experiences trauma to the left side of their brain, what deficits might we expect? Identify at least 3.

Answer 5

Impairments in oral, visual, written language, difficulty with logical reasoning, difficulty following rapidly changing information

Question 6

Describe social constructivist learning theory

Answer 6

Knowledge is constructed within social contexts through interactions as a knowledgeable individual

Question 7

Explain the relationship between the arcuate fasciculus, broca’s area, the motor cortex and wernicke’s area

Answer 7

Receptive language is processed in wernicke’s area then sent to broca’s area via the articulate fasciculus and ends up in the motor cortex to signal muscles for speech

Question 8

List the 5 domains of language

Answer 8

morphology , phonology, semantics, syntax, pragmatics

Question 9

Describe the information processing theory

Answer 9

We attend to a stimulus, we discriminate which info to keep, we organize and store the info in order to recall it later

Question 10

How does communicative intentionality develop?

Answer 10

Three stages:
pre-intentional
Reaching and grabbing
Intentional
Symbolic

Question 11

Describe 3 oral reflexes

Answer 11

Bite-flexing jaw
Rooting- cheek
Sucking

Question 12

List the 3 learning theories

Answer 12

Behavioral, cognitivist, social constructivist

Question 13

In prelinguistic children, why are gestures particularly important?

Answer 13

Main mode of communication; leads to verbal language

Question 14

List the 3 types of prompts parents use to encourage communication

Answer 14

Fill-ins, imitation and questions

Question 15

List and describe the two types of perception:

Answer 15

Auditory and visual perception

Question 16

List the 4 types of play

Answer 16

Solitary play
Parallel play
Associative
Cooperative

Question 17

What is a turnabout?

Answer 17

A turn-taking technique where a response is provided and also requires a response in return

Question 18

Which hemisphere is larger in comparison to the other during development?

Answer 18

left

Question 19

List the four areas of early cognitive development

Answer 19

sensation, perception, motor control, cognition

Question 20

Newborns have a preference for 2 things related to humans. What are they?

Answer 20

Human face and human voice

Question 21

What are the 3 basic functions of the brain?

Answer 21

regulation, processing, formulation

Question 22

List some characteristics of child-directed speech

Answer 22

Easy vocab, higher pitch, exaggeration of facial expressions/gestures

Question 23

How does feeding relate to turn-taking

Answer 23

It’s the earliest form

Question 24

What are two ways to collect observations?

Answer 24

Structured vs. unstructured or sampling and observation