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Language (9) Flashcards

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Magnet effect (Triadic interaction)

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Infant reaches towards the place an adult has acted on an object - object becomes more of a communicative referent

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Language

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A code in which spoken sound is used in order to encode meaning

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Symbolic system*

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Words and parts of words represent meaning - they refer to things other than themselves - the symbols are CONVENTIONAL

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Rule governed

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Rules that reflect regularities and are abstract e.g. articles precede nouns they refer to

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Productive

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A finite number of units and rules can make an infinite number of grammatical utterances and meanings

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4 things our language is

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A communication system
A symbolic system
Rule governed
Productive

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Morphemes *

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Smallest unit of meaning

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Pragmatics *

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How to use language in different contexts or genres

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Syntax

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Rules by which words/phrases are arranged

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From how old foetal reactions to sound*

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20 weeks

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By 7 months…

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Infants can remember and recognise familiar words within the speech stream

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Phonemes *

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Smallest unit of speech that can affect meaning

A SET of sounds that are not physically identical but are treated as equivalent by speakers of language
(E.g. K in ski and key)

Evidence that infants are innately predisposed -> sets them up for speech

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Sequence of language-development production ***!!

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Birth-2 months = reflexive vocalisations (e.g. different types of cry)
2-4months = cooing and laughing
4-6months = babbling - the first controlled vocalisations
6-10 months = CANONICAL* babbling - include more vowels and consonants - start to sound like words
10+ months = MODULATED babbling - add stress and intonation patterns and learn about these *

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Gesture

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A ‘way station’ on the road to language over ONTOGENETIC and evolutionary time

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The pragmatic system*

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Abilities that allow us to communicate in an effective way in a social context e.g….

Maintaining and repairing conversations - by 3 years will ask for clarifications
Turn taking
Initiating interactions

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How old when differences in communication to listeners is shown (pragmatics)

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2 years

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How old when take into account listeners perspective

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4-5 years

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Convention of different genres age

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3 years

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Syntactic system

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The way that words and parts of words are related to one another create grammatical sentences (governed by rules)

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Syntactic system - Chomsky *

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S-structure = surface structure (what is spoken)
D-structure = deep structure (the actual meaning)

innate Language Acquisition Device

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Nativist theories (e.g. Chomsky)

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Born with basic language production/comprehension capacity

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Chomsky’s LAD*

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Languages have universal features
Innate knowledge of basic grammar rules

Perceives regularities in perceived utterances
Generates hypotheses about these utterances
These can then be tested against new utterances

23
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First words

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10-18 months

‘Holophrases’ - condense meaning - more than one possible d-structure??

24
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At 18months…

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Word explosion

Mainly nouns

25
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Combination of gesture and word

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Come before word and word

26
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18-24 months - 2 word utterances**

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Telegraphic speech
Importance of scaffolding
Often don’t use word order for meaning

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24-27 months - 3-4 word utterances**

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Start to see evidence of grammatical rules

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When is speech understandable to even unfamiliar adults

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3 years
Complex sentences with relative clauses

29
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When is language similar to that of an adult*

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5 years
Still perfecting some tenses and constructions

30
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Overregularisation

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A previously learned syntactic rule is applied to the exception of the rule

Creative overregularisations - ‘ing’ - no irregular progressive forms so no errors

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Underextension

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Using a word too narrowly (e.g. ‘dog’ for toy dog but not dogs in the park)

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Overextension

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Extending the meaning too broadly (e.g. bird for all flying things)

33
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What age of vocabulary predicts language competence at age 9/10

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3

34
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Example of morpheme

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‘’ed” words

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How old when child starts to ask for clarifications

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3 years

36
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Proto-conversations

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Dyadic then triadic

37
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Holophrases

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More than 1 possible d-structure
Condensed meaning

38
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How many words by 6 years of age

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14,000

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