Module 7: Language Development Flashcards
Babbling
infants making vowel sounds
Child directed speech
Language directed to infants & children characterized by high pitch vocals, exaggerated intonations, elongated vowels, short & simple sentences, and repition
Joint attention
Adults labeling and talking about objects on which the child’s attention is focused
Expansion
Adults adding to – or expanding – the child’s incomplete statement as a way to model more complex language
Recasting
Adults reproducing the child’s utterance as a semantically similar expression that adds new info. to model more complex language
Semantics
How words convey meaning
Holophrastic speech
Use single words to express a larger meaning
Overextensions
Using a word to cover a range of concepts
Underextensions
Limiting use of a word to a subset of objects it refers to
Syntax
The logical combination of words into meaningful sentences
Telegraphic Speech
A way of ordering 2-3 words according to the grammatical rules of a language
Morphemic inflections
word endings
Pragmatics
Knowledge about how to use language in communicative contexts.
Metalinguistic Awareness
Our knowledge about language and how it works, is an important skill that emerges in early childhood and development throughout the early elemtary school grades
Phonological awareness
The knowledge that spoken words contain smaller units of sound
Syllables
the largest units of a sound
Phonemes
the smallest units of sound that can change the meaning if a word
Decoding
Applying the knowledge of the sounds of letters and letter strings to identify an unfamiliar word
Code mixing
Using words or phrases from one language as a substitue in the other language
Articulation disorder
When a familiar adult can’t understand a child’s speech by age 3`
Dysfluency
A lack of fluency in speech production
Specific Language impairment
Difficulties in receptive & expressive language
