Preschool Pragmatic Development Flashcards
Pragmatics
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
Discourse
A series of verbal interchanges between speakers on a shared topic
Narratives
Orderly, continuous account of an idea, event or series events
Narratives skills
Ability to describe events in a sequential, chronologically correct and logically consistent manner
Is quarrelling important to completely socialized discourse?
Yes
Escalation
Ex: “I love you” “I love you more” “I love you most”
Self-guidance by inner speech
Child talks to themself and seems to have no desire to interact with others
Affect expressive monologue
Periods when kids sing, chant, repeat real words, idiomorphs, comment on feelings, etc
Pre-sleep monologue
Child talking to themself before bed
Not talking to an adult or anyone, just to themself
Phonological play
Alliteration, rhythm, etc. Playing with words
Grammatical play
Successive word substitutions into carrier phrases
Imaginative (vocalized self) dialogue
- monologue
- more advanced than true monologues since they demonstrate facility at socialized discourse
Code switching
Alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation
Ex. speaking to adults vs other kids
Conversational ambiguity
Conversations with multiple different interpretations
What does language play begin with?
Pre-sleep monologues
Language comprehension
Known as receptive language
Language expression
Known as expressive language
Segmentation problems
- Under-segmentation
- Over-segmentation
- Mis-segmentation
Undersegmentation
Ex. Sayso
Because I say so = sayso
Over-segmentation
Ex real haive
Behave = I will real haive
Missegmentation
Ex. Key pout
Keep out = key pout
Catergorization problems
- Miscategorization
- Undercategorization
- Overapplication
Miscategorzation
Making up words to fit
Ex. crackering = putting crackers in soup
Undergategorization
Ex. sugars
Overapplication
“Somebody is at the door”
“Nobody is at the door”
“Yesbody is at the door”
Compound words
Creation of compound words
Semantics
Word meaning
Operational/functional
Using words to determine an item’s presence or properties; describing what an item does
Descriptive
Listing attributes
Categorical
Putting the item into a semantic category
Dictionary
Stating the category and the item characteristics
