chapter 7 Flashcards
(30 cards)
Ways to define Language
cultural too, symbolic and wide scope and power
Things it can do
expresses abstract ideas, desires and emotion. mediates activities, cultural knowledge.
comprehension vs production
comprehension comes before production
perceptual scaffolding
familiar word serves a an anchor for new words that come before/after
anchor words
the familiar word in a sentence that helps children to understand words before/after
babbling
vocalization, 7 months, consonants and vowels. narrows to everyday sounds @8 m
primary intersubjectivity
shared feelings as a result of well-coordinated and organized face-to-face social interactions
secondary intersubjectivity
allows babies and caregivers to communicate feelings that are the focus of their joint attention
multilingual environments and bilingualism (developmental outcomes)
young children learn multiple languages easily. promotes early cognitive development, better executive function, earlier theory of mind
phonological development
process of learning how to segment sequences of speech into meaningful units of sound
Phonemes
basic units of speech
morphemes
basic units of meaning
other component
semantic development
process of learning the meanings of words and word combinations
word mapping
identifying the object a word refers to
receptive vs productive vocab
receptive is what they understand, productive is what they say receptive is larger
variations in rates of children’s vocab acquisition
varies widely, sudden growth spurt in toddlerhood
grammar and meaning
innate universal grammar aids language interpretation
syntactic bootstrapping
use of knowledge of grammar to figure out the meaning of new words
- order of words : gorping study
pragmatic development
process learning the conventions that govern the use of language in particular social contexts
conversational acts
proto imperative
narrative develop
birth
3 months
