language development

Question 1

embedded form

Answer 1

adding or rearranging elements w/in a sentence

“the boy who got a haircut looks nice”

Question 2

heuristic communication

Answer 2

children attempting to have events in their environment explained to them,
environment organized & investigated

Question 3

grammatical morphemes

Answer 3

1. -ing
2. in, on
3. plural -s
4. irregular past tense
5. possessive -s
6. uncontractible copula
7. articles
8. -ed
9. 3rd person -s
10. irregular 3rd person
11. uncontractible auxiliary
12. contractible copula
13. contractible auxiliary

Question 4

temporal auditory processing

Answer 4

ability to perceive brief acoustic events that comprise speech sounds & track changes as they happen quickly

Question 5

concrete operations stage of development

Answer 5

7-11 years, child is less egocentric, uses logical causality &
effective classification

Question 6

information processing theory

Answer 6

focuses on how language is learned
& what types of cognitive functioning are necessary,
emphasis on auditory processing

Question 7

auditory processing components

Answer 7

discrimination, 
attention, 
memory, 
rate, 
sequencing
& recently: 
phonological processing, 
temporal auditory processing

Question 8

social interactionism theory

Vygotsky

Answer 8

emphasize language function over structure,
language develops as a function of social interaction,
motivation key in using language

Question 9

pragmatic stages: prelocutionary behavior

Answer 9

signals have an effect on the listener/observer

but lack communicative intent

Question 10

pragmatic stages: illocutionary behavior

Answer 10

signal to carry out some socially organized action
(pointing & laughing),
uses intentional communication

Question 11

pragmatic stages: locutionary

Answer 11

pragmatic stages: locutionary begins to use words

Question 12

holophrastic

Answer 12

1 word used to communicate variety of meanings,

represents complex idea

Question 13

formal operations stage (piaget)

Answer 13

child uses other point of view

Question 14

behavior theory

Answer 14

Skinner: language acquisition as verbal behavior

Question 15

nativist theory

Answer 15

chomsky: children are born with a language acquisition device that contains the universal rules of language

Question 16

cognitive theory

Answer 16

Piaget: cognition and intellectual processes make language possible

Question 17

information processing

Answer 17

how language is learned, and what types cognitive function are necessary for language learning

Question 18

social interactionism theory:

Answer 18

Vygostsky: function over structure. language develop as a function.