Linguistic features Flashcards
What is a more knowledgable other?
belief that other people such as parents, siblings, teachers play a significant role in the learning of children and their development.
overgeneralisation ?
extension of words/grammatical rules beyond their normal use
CDS- Child Directed Speech?
speech patterns used by parents to givers when communicating with young children.
Scaffolding?
transferring skills from an adult to a child and then withdrawing them once that skill has been supported.
Recasting?
Taking response of a child and reformulating it to make it correct.
Expansion?
developing or extending on a child’s response to correct the phrasing
Open Question?
A question that requires more thought and detail in its response.
Closed Question?
A question which requires a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’
Back Channelling?
‘mhm’ that signal that they are listening in the conversation, parents
Paralinguistic features?
Body Lang
Adjacency Pairs?
Turn-taking style of conversation
Terms of Address?
The manner in which is referred to when speaking to someone - formal or informal= ‘mummy’, ‘sir’
Deletion?
Omitting the final consonant in words: ‘do(g)
Substitution?
Subsitituting harder sounds= ship= pip
Addition?
Adding an extra vowel to the end of words = CVCV pattern = ‘doggie’
Assimilation?
Changing one consonant or vowel for another= dog= gog
Reduplication?
repeating a whole syllable = dada, mama
Consonant cluster reduction?
pider for spider
Deletion unstressed syllables?
Omitting opening syllable in polysyllabic words= nana= banana
Negative formation?
Saying no at the beginning of a sentence or at the end, not in the middle attached to the auxiliary verb= Bellugi
Plosive?
Air is stopped and suddenly released to be spoken
Universal Grammar?
Language sharing principles of grammar despite the surface differences of lexis or phonology = Chomsky
Phonemic Expansion?
The variety of sounds increase, cooing to babbling
Phonemic contraction?
Variety of sounds reduced to the sounds in the main language used
Inflectional morphology?
The alteration of words to make new grammatical forms.
Derivational Morphology?
Creation of new words by adding prefixes and suffixes
