Language Development exam #1 (chapter 5) Flashcards
Prelinguistic development of speech
Milestones 1 to 4 months:
Cooing
Prelinguistic development of speech
Milestones for birth to four weeks:
- Birth cry
- Vegetative sounds
Prelinguistic development of speech
Milestones 4 to 6 months:
Marginal babbling
Prelinguistic development of speech
Milestones 6 to 8 months
- vocal play
- Reduplicated Babbling
- Nonreduplicated babbling
Prelinguistic development of speech
Milestone 8 to 12 months
Echolalia
Prelinguistic development of speech
Milestones 9 to 12 months
Jargon
What is vegetative sounds?
Lip and tongue clicks, burps, coughs. They are associated with feeding and digesting
What is quasi-resonant nuclei (QRN)?
Sigh like sounds
What is cooing?
It is described as sound productions that are more about vowel like in nature, typically with an /u/ — /oo/ quality
What is marginal babbling?
Described as the production of a variety of vowel like sounds with occasional vocal tract closure, which together approximate simple consonant vowel (CV) Syllables, as in /ba/, Or vowel consonant (VC). Syllables, as in /ab/
What are fully resonant nuclei?
Sounds that approach consonants, infants’ vowels resonate more fully
What is vocal play?
The longer strings of syllables that expand out marginal babbling as infants continue to “play” with sound
How many phases of babbling are there?
- Marginal babbling
- Reduplicated babbling
- Non-reduplicated babbling
What is reduplicated babbling?
The syllable is duplicated in strings of repetitive syllables
/da-da-da-da/
What is non-reduplicated babbling? Or variegated babbling?
The strings of syllables are more varied. The consonants and vowels may change from one syllable to the next within the same string, as in /gabida/
What is echolalia?
Infants’ relatively immediate reproduction of speech heard in the immediate environment. (Imitation or echo)
What is jargon?
It consists of strings of syllables produced with stress and intonation that mimic real speech