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Key terms for CLA (Paper 3) Flashcards

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Communicative competence

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Ability to form accurate and understandable utterances, using the grammar system, and understand social context for using them

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Proto words

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‘Made up’ words that a child will use to represent a word that that they may not be able to pronounce e.g. ‘ray ray’ for raisins

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Pre-verbal stage

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2-6 months
A period of time that involves experimenting with noises and sounds but without producing recognisable words- usually lasting for the majority of the baby’s first year

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Cooing

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Distinct from crying but not yet forming recognisable vowels and consonants

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Babbling

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Vocal play that involves forming vowel and consonant sounds, which can be reduplicated ( repeated) or variegated (different sounds put together)

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Variegated sounds

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Different sounds put together

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Holophrastic stage

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12-18 months

The point in a child’s development when a child uses individual words to communicate

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Non-verbal communication

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All the ways in which communication occurs that does not involve words (e.g. shaking the head from a parent)

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Phonological development

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Refers to how children learn to organize sounds into meaning or language (phonology) during their stages of growth.

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Plosives

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The sound made by closing the mouth and then releasing a burst of breath: t, k, and p (voiceless) and d, g, and b (voiced).

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Fricatives

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Produced by bringing the mouth into position to block the passage of the airstream, but not making complete closure, so that air moving through the mouth generates audible friction: f, s; v, z

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Articulatory ease

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The linguistic concern for how certain sound changes in words might be motivated by how easy or hard the word is to pronounce.

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Perceptual discriminability

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The brain’s ability to accurately perceive information in a complex, fluid and confusing situation and, even more importantly, to accurately differentiate amongst confusable types of information.

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Reduplication

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Repeated syllables within a word e.g. baa for blanket

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Diminutives

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The reduction in scale of an item through the way a word is created e.g. booklet (a small book), droplet (a small drop), wavelet (a small wave)

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Addition

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Adding an additional suffix to the end of a word in order to change the way a word is pronounced and interpreted e.g. mummy and dolly instead of mum and doll

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Substitution

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The process of swapping one sound for another (that is easier to pronounce) e.g. ‘Fink’ instead of think

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Assimilation

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One consonant or vowel is swapped for another e.g. handbag often pronounced ‘hambag’ or ‘borry’ for lorry

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Deletion

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A sound segment is removed from a word e.g. flyin or tephone

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Consonant cluster reductions

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Reducing phonologically more complex units into simpler ones- from two (or more) consonants down to one e.g. ‘dis’ not dish

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Syntax

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The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

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Two-word stage

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18 months

Period of time when a child begins to put two words together e.g. kick ball

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Telegraphic stage

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2 years old
Period of time when a child’s utterances will be three words and more: there might be omission of some words , with the key words included

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Post telegraphic stage

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Age 3
Period of time when a child’s language will include both content and grammatical words and more closely resemble adult speech

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Content words

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Words within a sentence that are vital to convey meaning

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Grammatical words

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Words within a sentence that are necessary to demonstrate structural accuracy

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Operant conditioning (skinner)

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The idea that either a positive or negative response given by a caregiver can influence the way in which a child talks on future occasions

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Positive reinforcement

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The positive feedback given to a child which is thought to encourage similar performance again

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Negative reinforcement

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The lack of feedback, correction or negative feedback that might prevent a child from from making the same error repeatedly

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Language acquisition device (LAD- Chomsky)

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The idea that all humans are born with an innate language learning capability

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Tabula rasa

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Latin for ‘blank slate’ and the term used to describe the idea that children are born with undeveloped, fresh brains

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Universal grammar (Chomsky)

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The notion that all human languages possess similar grammatical properties which the brain is ‘hard wired’ to be able to decode and use

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Virtuous errors (Chomsky)

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Grammatical errors that are understandable and logical through an incorrect assumption being made about grammar rules

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Critical period

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The age at which a child will be most receptive to learn language

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Cognitive development

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A child’s development of thinking and understanding

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Language acquisition support system (LASS- Brurner)

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A system that refers to caregivers and other important participants within a child’s life that facilitate learning

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Egocentric

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Thinking only of themselves, without understanding or regard of the feelings of others

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Object permanence

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An understanding that objects continue to exist even if they cannot be seen or touched

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Scaffolding (Bruner and a Vygotsky)

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The support provided by caregivers through modelling how speech ought to take place, in order to help the child’s language development

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Sensorimotor stage (Piaget)

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0-2 years old
A child begins to interact with their environment, using their senses and physical movement to do so. During this stage a child remains egocentric and an understanding of object permanence appears

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Pre-operational stage (Piaget)

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2-6/7 years old
Characterised by a child’s learning to speak and developing their imaginative focus. In play they become able to represent the world symbolically, A child remains egocentric in this stage and struggles to understand things from points of view other than their own.

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Concrete operational stage (Piaget)

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6/7-11/12 years
A child stops being egocentric at this stage and begins to be able to understand the points of view of others> They become more capable of logical thought

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Formal operational stage (Piaget)

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11-16+

There will no longer be a problem with logical thought and thinking becomes increasingly abstract

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Preposition

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A word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object.

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More knowledgeable other (MOT- Vygotsky)

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The older participant in an interaction who might offer support to a child so that they can further their own development or learning

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Zone of proximal development (ZPD- Vygotsky)

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Describes the area between what a child can already do and that which is beyond their reach. It is the area into which a caregiver might enable the child to progress by offering the necessary support or scaffolding to facilitate learning

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Usage based linguistics (Tomasello)

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A model that emphasises that language structure emerges from use in the linguistic patterns are formed and become what we know as grammatical constructions

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Pattern forming ability

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Describes cognitive process that matches information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory.

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Child directed speech (CDS)

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The various ways in which a caregiver (unconsciously) adapts their speech in order to help aid a child in their language development

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Expansion

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When a caregiver might develop a child’s utterances to make it more grammatically complete

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Recast

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The grammatically incorrect utterances of a child if spoken back to the child but in the correct form

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Mitigated imperatives

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An instruction given in such a way that it does not appear to be a command but a more gentle suggestion

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IRF structures- initiation, response, feedback

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Three-part conversational exchange in which a speaker starts the conversation, a second speaker responses and then feedback is provided to what the second speaker said

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Instrumental stage (Halliday)

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Child is trying to fulfil need e.g. asking for food or drink

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Regulatory stage (Halliday)

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Used to control the behaviour of someone: persuading, commanding, requesting e.g. telling a caregiver where to sit

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Interactional stage (Halliday)

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Used to develop relationships with others e.g. telling a sibling you love them

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Personal stage (Halliday)

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Used to express views and preferences e.g. me no like it

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Heuristic stage (Halliday)

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Language used to explore, learn and discover e.g. what are you doing mummy?

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Imaginative stage (Halliday)

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Used to explore something creatively or during play

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Representational stage (Halliday)

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Language that is used to request or receive information

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