Key words Flashcards
MLU
Mean length of utterance
Canonical babble
The production of reduplicated language-like sounds; rhythmic
Ambient language
Childs native language spoken by the mother
Speech segmentation
Breaking down speech stream into chunks
Articulatory filter
Vihman 1993 - infants tuning into sounds produced in their own babble
Salience
How much something stands out
Prosody
Patterns of stress and intonation of language
Allophone
A phonetic realisation of a phoneme (dark and clear l)
Phoneme
Unit of speech sound
Domain general
Mechanisms that function together and do effect eachother
Domain specific
Mechanisms that function independently and don’t effect eachother
Labial consonant
Consonant sound made using the lips as one articulator
Bilabial
Sound made using both the lips
Vowel formant
The qualities of a vowel
Front vowel
Sounds produced at the front of the mouth
CDI
Communicative Development Inventory, specific to languages eg. Oxford CDI for British English
Critical period
A period during development in which a particular skill or characteristic is believed to be most readily acquired
WEIRD population
Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic
Word type
Refers to the number of distinct words, not counting repetitions
Word token
Refers to the total number of words regardless of repetition
Operant conditioning
A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment
Geminate consonant
A long consonant that contrasts with a shorter counterpart
Truncation
A form of clipping and shortening a word
Mutually exclusive
Describes things that can’t occur simultaneously
Heritage language
A minority language learnt by speakers at home but not fully developed due to dominant language eg. English
Matched-guise test
Determines true feelings of a person or community towards dialects, languages or accents
Code-switching
Alternating between two or more languages in a sentence
