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W5 - pt 2 - language development Flashcards

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What was Berko-Gleason’s ‘Wug Test’ (1958) designed to assess?

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If children could apply learned plural rules to unfamiliar words

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What did the ‘Wug Test’ reveal about language acquisition in children?

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Children could apply morphological rules to nonsense words

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What is the Holophrastic Stage in language development?

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Stage where children use memorized forms, not rule-based forms

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What characterizes the Rule-Based Stage in morphological development?

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Children overgeneralize rules, e.g., ‘foots’ instead of ‘feet’

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What is the final stage in morphological development?

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Mastery of rules and exceptions, e.g., using both ‘feet’ and ‘went’

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What does ‘U-shaped learning’ describe in language development?

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Correct use, then overgeneralization, then accurate use

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What is the Critical Period Hypothesis?

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Certain behaviors must develop within a critical period for typical function

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How does the Critical Period Hypothesis apply to language?

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Language acquisition is easiest before puberty

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Who proposed the Critical Period Hypothesis, and when?

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Eric Lenneberg in 1967

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What animal behavior provides evidence for the Critical Period Hypothesis?

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Songbirds need early exposure to song dialects

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What is Chomsky’s concept of Universal Grammar (UG)?

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A set of grammatical principles believed to be universal across human languages

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What is the Language Acquisition Device (LAD) according to Chomsky?

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An innate mechanism that enables children to learn language using Universal Grammar

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How does ‘input’ trigger the Language Acquisition Device (LAD)?

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Exposure to language activates LAD

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What is an example of a parameter in Universal Grammar?

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Pro-drop, e.g., sentences without subjects

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How do Creole languages support the concept of Universal Grammar?

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Creoles evolve from Pidgin languages, adding grammatical structure

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Who opposes Chomsky’s LAD theory?

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Jeffrey Elman

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17
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What is the Simple View of Reading?

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Reading comprehension = word recognition x language comprehension

18
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What is Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)?

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A measure of a child’s syntactic development

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How is MLU calculated?

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By counting morphemes per utterance

20
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Why is MLU more accurate than age for syntax development?

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It accounts for individual language differences

21
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How do languages like Finnish affect MLU scoring?

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Rich morphology inflates MLU scores

22
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When do children typically begin forming multi-word phrases?

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Around age two

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What did Trueswell et al. (1999) reveal about children’s sentence processing?

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Children often misinterpret ambiguous sentences

24
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What are ‘garden-path sentences’?

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Sentences with misleading starts that require re-interpretation

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What is an example of a garden-path sentence used in language studies?

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‘The horse raced past the barn fell’

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How do adults handle garden-path sentences differently than children?

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Adults use context; children tend to misinterpret

27
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What example demonstrates Universal Grammar’s applicability?

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All languages have nouns and verbs

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What effect does the ‘word gap’ have on language development?

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Low SES children have smaller vocabularies by age 5

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What is the Mutual Exclusivity Assumption?

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Children assume each object has a unique label

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What is the ‘Whole Object Assumption’?

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Children assume a word labels an entire object

31
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What is Steven Pinker’s view on language acquisition?

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Language involves innate structures activated by exposure

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How does early exposure to reading benefit children?

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Linked to stronger language and reading skills

33
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What are the five key components of reading instruction?

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Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension

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What is phonemic awareness?

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Recognizing sound structures within words

35
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Why is fluency important in reading?

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Allows children to read quickly and accurately

36
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What does MLU measure, and what does a higher MLU indicate?

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Sentence complexity; higher MLU means more advanced syntax

37
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Give an example of an MLU calculation.

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‘He jumps’ = 3 morphemes

38
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What did Hart & Risley’s (1995) study show?

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SES impacts vocabulary and reading skills by age 5

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How does the ‘Shape Bias’ support vocabulary growth?

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Children focus on shape to categorize and learn words

40
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Why is Child-Directed Speech (CDS) important?

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Engages infants, aiding word recognition

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