New Information Exam 3 Flashcards
What is theory of mind?
The ability to understand that others have unique perspectives and interpret those perspectives in a social context
Development of theory of mind (6 components)
- Diverse desires: Understanding that people can have different desires
- Diverse beliefs: understanding that people can have different beliefs
- Knowledge access: Something can be true without someone else knowing it
- False Beliefs: Something can be true but someone else might not believe it
- Hidden Emotions: people can hide their emotions
- Understanding sarcasm
What stage of development of theory of mind are preschoolers in?
False belief stage
The development of theory of mind can be impacted by a child’s
Culture
What are the 5 stages of syntax?
- Holophrase: 1 word represents a whole sentence
- Two word utterances
- Telegraphic speech (use lexical words)
- Simple sentences (the boat is on the river)
- Complex sentences (start to see multiple clauses)
Simple sentences in the preschool stage often take the form of
Subject, verb , object
For a sentence to be considered a simple sentences it must contain a ___ and _____
Subject and verb
How do simple sentences gain complexity?
Start with two word stage
Move on to telegraphic speech
Then proceed with simple sentences where auxiliaries appear
How does a child learn the word order to ask a question?
Syntactic rules are applied to formulate wh- questions
Example: rising intonation, wh- fronting
How does the development of clauses start to show?
Typically start with and
Use passive voice
What is a clause?
Any noun phrase plus a verb
Subject and verb
Unit used to build a sentence
Group of words containing a subject and predicate and used as part of a sentence
Every sentence has at least one clause, not every clause forms a complete sentence
What is phrase?
Any collection of words that behaves like a part of speech
A group of related words that doesn’t have both a subject and predicate
Can’t stand alone
Prepositional phrases such as “in the car”
Why is language sample analysis using sugar performed?
Makes a more authentic representation of the child’s abilities
Child-directed
More spontaneous language in a natural setting
Use a wide range of materials
What are the measures that are used with SUGAR?
TNW: total # words
W/S: words/sentence
MLU-s: average # morphemes/utterance
C/S: average # clauses/sentence
Sugar terminology:
Utterance: group of related words that is spoken
Sentence: subject & predicate
Clause: contains a subject and a verb
How does LSA using Sugar differ from traditional analysis?
- Collect and analyze 50 consecutive utterances
- Utterance can include one intelligible word
- Don’t type utterances for conversation partner
- Counts grammatical and some inflectional morphemes
- Counts incorrect morphemes
MLU sugar is the same or different from MLU?
DIFFERENT
The two do nor equate and cannot be compared
MLU-sugar allows for comparison well into school age
What questions are used to determine if a sugar language sample is robust?
- Did the conversation partner ask more than 10 questions that could be answered with single word or yes/no?
- Are there more than 10 one-word responses from the child?
- Did the language sample activity restrict the opportunity for the child to produce extended utterances?
What is type token ratio and what is it used for?
-Helps assess lexical diversity by looking at the type (number of different words) over the token (total number of words in the sample
Typically, children acquire all vowels in English by age ___
3
How is consonant acquisition looked at or determined?
There a variety of studies that have provided normative data
Make sure to look at the criteria used to say a speech sound was acquired
How should articulation norms be used?
Use them as a helpful guideline but the not the sole criteria to determine if a child requires services
What should be used along with articulation norms in order to determine need for services?
Standardized tests
Speech samples
-Independent analyses: phonemic inventory, word shape inventory
-Relational analyses: PCC, pMLU, Proximity/intelligibility
Parent and teacher input
Academic and social input
What is contextualized language?
Language that is grounded in the immediate environment
Relies upon shared background knowledge and context cues
Describing things in the physical environment
What is decontextualized language?
Language that is used to discuss events and concepts that aren’t immediately present
Context does not necessarily provide cues and there may not be shared background knowledge
Example: reading a textbook
Decontextualized language is supported by _____
Theory of mind
What is mutual exclusivity?
Using what you know to help identify what you do not know
Preschoolers develop semantics through ….
Fast mapping: initial tentative, definition
Slow mapping: refining definition with new information gained from additional exposures
Dale’s 4 stages of semantic development
Stage 1: no knowledge of the word (I never saw it before)
Stage 2: emergent knowledge (I’ve heard of it but don’t know what it means)
Stage 3: contextual knowledge (I recognize it in context)
Stage 4: full knowledge (I know it)
Preschool semantic development:
What are relational terms?
Vocabulary that allows for the communication of logical relationships
Adds complexity to the meaning and ideas that children are trying to communicate
What are the different relational terms?
Deictic terms Interrogatives Temporal terms Opposites Locational terms (prepositions) Kinship terms
Preschool semantic development:
Deictic terms details
Words that depend upon the location of the speaker and listener
Here vs There
This vs that
These vs those
Preschool semantic development:
Interrogatives details
Words used to ask questions
What, where and who are developed first
When, how and why are developed later
Preschool semantic development:
Temporal terms details
Words that describe the order, duration, or concurrence of events
Example: do A, before B
Preschool semantic development:
Opposites/antonyms details
Reflect semantic opposition
Recognized faster during word recognition
Elicit each other during word association tasks (priming)
Occur frequently in written and spoken language
Preschool semantic development:
Canonical antonyms vs noncanonical antonyms?
Canonical: Opposite properties of basic dimensions (hot vs cold)
Non-canonical: Fast and quick, wet and damp
Preschool semantic development:
What are locational terms/prepositions?
Words that determine location or a spatial relationship
Preschool semantic development:
What are kinship terms?
Words that describe familial relationships
Learned for family members that are around often first
What two things change regarding language as children reach school age?
- Source of language input expands from only oral to include reading
- Acquire metalinguistic competence: ability to think about and analyze language (phonological awareness and figurative language)
What is metalinguistics?
Ability to think about language as a decontextualized entity
Using language to talk about language
Starts in preschool and continues until ages 7 to 8
Metalinguistics relies heavily on ____ memory and correlates with children’s _____ skills
working memory
literacy skills
Development of metalinguistic skills
Toddler: monitors own utterances
Preschool: checks the result own utterance, tests for reality, attempts to learn language deliberately
School age: predicts the consequences of using particular forms (inflections, words, phrases, sentences), reflects on an utterance (structure independent of use)
Reading and writing are ____ and ____ language translated into written form
Without a strong language foundation, ____ skills can be a struggle
receptive, expressive
reading