Preschool Pragmatic Development

Question 1

Pragmatics

Answer 1

Set of rules governing the use of language in social contexts (including turn taking, topic maintenance, questioning and conversation rules); study of speaker/listener intentions and relations, as well as all the elements the environment surrounding the message

Question 2

Discourse

Answer 2

A series of verbal interchanges between speakers on a shared topic

Question 3

Narratives

Answer 3

Orderly, continuous account of an idea, event or series events

Question 4

Narratives skills

Answer 4

Ability to describe events in a sequential, chronologically correct and logically consistent manner

Question 5

Is quarrelling important to completely socialized discourse?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

Escalation

Answer 6

Ex: “I love you” “I love you more” “I love you most”

Question 7

Self-guidance by inner speech

Answer 7

Child talks to themself and seems to have no desire to interact with others

Question 8

Affect expressive monologue

Answer 8

Periods when kids sing, chant, repeat real words, idiomorphs, comment on feelings, etc

Question 9

Pre-sleep monologue

Answer 9

Child talking to themself before bed

Not talking to an adult or anyone, just to themself

Question 10

Phonological play

Answer 10

Alliteration, rhythm, etc. Playing with words

Question 11

Grammatical play

Answer 11

Successive word substitutions into carrier phrases

Question 12

Imaginative (vocalized self) dialogue

Answer 12

• monologue
• more advanced than true monologues since they demonstrate facility at socialized discourse

Question 13

Code switching

Answer 13

Alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation

Ex. speaking to adults vs other kids

Question 14

Conversational ambiguity

Answer 14

Conversations with multiple different interpretations

Question 15

What does language play begin with?

Answer 15

Pre-sleep monologues

Question 16

Language comprehension

Answer 16

Known as receptive language

Question 17

Language expression

Answer 17

Known as expressive language

Question 18

Segmentation problems

Answer 18

• Under-segmentation
• Over-segmentation
• Mis-segmentation

Question 19

Undersegmentation

Answer 19

Ex. Sayso

Because I say so = sayso

Question 20

Over-segmentation

Answer 20

Ex real haive

Behave = I will real haive

Question 21

Missegmentation

Answer 21

Ex. Key pout

Keep out = key pout

Question 22

Catergorization problems

Answer 22

• Miscategorization
• Undercategorization
• Overapplication

Question 23

Miscategorzation

Answer 23

Making up words to fit

Ex. crackering = putting crackers in soup

Question 24

Undergategorization

Answer 24

Ex. sugars

Question 25

Overapplication

Answer 25

“Somebody is at the door”
“Nobody is at the door”
“Yesbody is at the door”

Question 26

Compound words

Answer 26

Creation of compound words

Question 27

Semantics

Answer 27

Word meaning

Question 28

Operational/functional

Answer 28

Using words to determine an item’s presence or properties; describing what an item does

Question 29

Descriptive

Answer 29

Listing attributes

Question 30

Categorical

Answer 30

Putting the item into a semantic category

Question 31

Dictionary

Answer 31

Stating the category and the item characteristics