Preschoolers Flashcards
Free morphemes
can carry morpheme can carry meaning on its own and does not require a prefix or suffix to give it meaning
Derivational morphemes
Morphemes combine with a limited subgroup of free morphemes or with derivational morphemes to create a “new” word or change the meaning of a word or change the form-class of a word
Inflectional morphemes
morphemes create a variant form of a word in order to signal grammatical information without changing the meanings of words.
Under-segment
the child does not break the word or phrase into enough morphemes
contextualized language
related to immediate context;
Decontextualized language
related to objects, experiences, or ideas that are not in the immediate context. May be related to a previous experience related to the current experience.
slow mapping
refining understanding and use of new words w/ repeated exposures in various contexts
1 stage of learning a word (Dale)
- No knowledge of the word
2 stage of learning a word (Dale)
- Emergent knowledge = Heard it before but doesn’t know what it means
3 stage of learning a word (Dale)
- Contextual knowledge = recognizing the word in context
4 stage of learning a word (Dale)
- Full knowledge = knows the word with or without context (extended mapping)
What are Dale’s 4 stages of learning a word?
- No knowledge of the word
- Emergent knowledge
- Contextual knowledge
- Full knowledge
Deictic
depend on location of a
speaker and listener; here, this, there,
that
Interrogatives
words for questions:
what, where, who, which, etc
Temporal
words related to order of
events; before, after, since, until
Locational Prepositions
describe
spatial relations; under, next to, on
Theory of Mind
The ability to understand one’s own mental or emotional state and understand how one’s actions effects other’s emotions.
False belief
Something can be true but someone might believe something different (theory of mind)
Narrative
Spoken or written description of a real or fictional event
Around what age do true narratives develop?
about 4
Sub-lexical Level Literacy
-Alphabetic Principle
-Print Concepts
-Phonological awareness
-Oral Language
Lexical Level Literacy
-Decoding (phonics)
-Multisyllabic word reading