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Comprehension

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required to develop language skills; refers to understanding what others say.

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Production

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refers to speaking.

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______ are combined to form words.

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sounds.

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_____ are combined to form senetences.

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words

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generativity

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refers to the idea that we can put together an infinite number of sentences and express an infinite number of ideas

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phonemes

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elementary units of meaningful sound used to produce languages

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phonological development

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knowledge about the sound system of a language

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morphemes

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smallest units of meaning in a language

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semantic development

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the learning of the system for expressing meaning in a language, including word learning.

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syntax

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rules in a language that specify how words from different categories can be combined.

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syntactic development

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the learning of the syntax of a language.

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pragmatic development

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the acquisition of knowledge about how language is used.

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Language is

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  • species specific

- species universal

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species universal

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language learning is achieved by typically developing infants across the globe.

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species specific

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only humans acquire language in the normal course of development.

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Pitch detection of speech

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is involved in the right hemisphere.

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For_____ handed individual, language if primarily represented and controlled by their
____ hemisphere.

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right; left

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Broca

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speech production

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Wernickle

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language development

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Broca’s aphasia

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a syndrome in which speech production abilities are impaired.

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Wernickle’s aphasia

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a syndrome in which comprehension of heard speech is impaired

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critical period for language

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the time during which language develops readily.

  • between age 5 and puberty
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What does research say about bilingualism?

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  • improves aspects of cognitive functioning in childhood and beyond.
  • better measures of executive functioning & habituation.
  • greater cognitive flexibility
  • delay the onset of AD.
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Infants show preference for _____ rather than ________.

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speech; artificial sounds.

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infant-directed speech (IDS)
- preferred by infants. | - the distinctive mode of speech that adults adopt when talking to babies and very young children
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Infants learn and recognize words better when presented in ____ than ____.
IDS; ADS.
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Language is acquired by
listening and speaking/watching and signing.
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prosody
the characteristic rhythm, tempo, etc with which a language is spoken.
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categorical perception
the perception of speech sounds as belonging to discrete categories
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speech synthesizer
is used to gradually and continuously change one speech sound, such as /b/, into a related one, such as /p/.
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voice onset time (VOT)
the length of time between when air passes through the lips and when the vocal cords start vibrating
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Young infants draw the same _____ between ______ sounds.
sharp distinctions; speech
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Perceptual narrowing
- in speech perception happens during the first 10 to 12 months of age. - infants lose their ability to perceive the speech sounds that are not part of their native language by 1st birthday.
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Word segmentation
Figuring out where the words start and end
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Distributional properties
the phenomenon that in any language, certain sounds are more likely to appear together than are others.
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at what age do babies begin to coo?
6 - 8 weeks.
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dialogues of reciprocal cooing
babies vocalizations elicit responses from others.
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more responsive caregivers equals
more mature vocalization patterns.
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Babbling
repetitive consonant-vowel sequences or hand movements produced during the early phases of language development
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Communicative competence
the ability to communicate intentionally with another person
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reference
the associating of words and meaning
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Productive vocabulary
the words a child is able to say
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Holophrastic Period
the period when children begin using the words in their small productive vocabulary one word at a time
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Overextension
the use of a given word in a broader context than is appropriate
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Children have a vocabulary of about ____ words around ___ months of age.
50; 18
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Adult influences on word learning
- amount and quality of speech - parents highlighting new words - naming games - names of objects in the central vision are better learned - contexts in which words are used by talking adults - spatial consistency
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Social economic status (SES)
is a key determinants of langue children hear.
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Example of SES on language development
- richness of communicative context also predict language attainment. - physical environments in which children learn language - peer effects - teacher effects
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Fast mapping
The process of rapidly learning a new word simply from hearing the contrastive use of a familiar and the unfamiliar word.
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Mutual exclusivity principle
assuming a given entity have only one name.
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whole-object principle
children expect a novel word to refer to a whole object rather than to another aspect of the object.
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Pragmatic cues
Aspects of the social context used for word learning
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ex of pragmatic cies
1. Adult’s focus of attention 2. Intentionality 3. Adult’s emotional response 4. Linguistic context 5. Objects shape 6. cross-situational word learning 7. Syntactic bootstrapping
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Intentionality
ex: lets "dax" mickey mouse. | - child thinks dax = see.
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Adult’s emotional response
ex: picking up one of two objects and showing disappointment
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Shape cue- shape bias
Children extend a novel noun to novel objects of the same shape, even when those objects differ dramatically in size, colour, and texture
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cross-situational word learning
Narrowing down the possible meanings of new words based on experience
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Syntactic bootstrapping
strategy of using the grammatical structure of whole sentences to figure out meaning
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By the end of ____ sentences appear
2nd
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Comprehension precedes
production.
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Telegraphic speech
Children’s first sentences. - ex: drink juice
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Grammar
a tool for building new words and sentences.
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Generalization
- nouns are made plural by addings | - verbs are put into past tense by adding ed
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Overregularization
Treating irregular forms of words as if they were regular
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Collective monologues
Egocentric conversations of young children
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Narratives
Descriptions of past events with basic structure of a story
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Scaffolding
contributes to children’s narratives by asking elaborative questions.
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Complex grammar is mastered
school-age children
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Approximate vocabulary achieved
- 6-year-olds – 10,000 words - 5th-graders – 40,000 words - College students – 150,000 words
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Prerequisites for language acquisition are:
1. ) A human brain (nature) | 2. ) Experience with a human language (nurture
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Skinner (and behaviourists) favoured
nurture.
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Noam Chomsky proposed humans are born with:
Universal grammar
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Universal grammar
A proposed set of highly abstract, unconscious rules that are common to all languages

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