Vocabulary Words Week 5

Question 1

does not always mean what it seems
to mean. For example, idioms are expressions that often cannot be understood literally, such as “hit the road” or “off the wall.” Enriches communication requires higher language functions of interpretation and correlates with adolescent literacy skills

Answer 1

figurative language

Question 2

Many speech sounds develop sound-meaning relationships, these sound patterns function as protowords, or
“words” for the infant

Answer 2

phonetically consistent forms

Question 3

An adult response to a child’s utterance in which the adult adds to the child’s utterance to provide a more complex example of what the child has said.

Answer 3

reformulation

Question 4

personal dictionary, containing
words that reflect that child’s environment.

Answer 4

lexicon

Question 5

Words are learned quickly through a process called ____ in which
the child infers the meaning from context and then uses the word in a similar manner.

Answer 5

fast mapping

Question 6

We can describe children’s
language development by calculating the average, or mean length of utterance in morphemes

Answer 6

MLU

Question 7

Reading and writing development is related to ____ which
enable a child to consider language in the abstract, to make judgments about its correctness, and to create verbal contexts, such as in writing.

Answer 7

metalinguistic skills

Question 8

The use, function, or purpose of communication; the study of communicative acts and
contexts.

Answer 8

pragmatics

Question 9

How words are arranged in sentences

Answer 9

syntax

Question 10

The study of word and language meaning

Answer 10

semantics