Language development Flashcards
(48 cards)
Comprehension
with regard to language, understanding what other say
Production
With regard to language, speaking to others
Generatively
Taal is klanken, woorden , zinnen ect.
Phonemes
Smallest units of meaningful sound (lake vs rake)
Morphemes
Smallest unit of meaning in a language (dog 1, dogs 2 want zegt hond + meervoud)
Syntax
Rule specifying how words from different categories (noun, verb ect.) can be combined
Pragmatics
Knowledge about how language is used
Bilingualism
The ability to use two languages
Syntactic development
Learning of how to use syntax in language
Brain half language
Left
Infant-directed speech (IDS)
Mode of speech adults use to adres kids
Speech perception
the first step in language learning: sounds of native language
Prosody
characteristics (ritme, tempo melody ect) of language spoken
Categorical perception
The perception of phonemes as belonging to discrete catogories
Voice onset time (VOT)
the length of time between when air passes through the lips and when the vocal cord starts vibrating
Perceptual narrowing
Na 12 maanden kunnen kinderen niet meer speech dat ze niet kennen tot zich nemen, na 8 maanden discrimineren ze speech sounds, sensitive to own language
Word segmentation
Where do words begin and end in fluent speech
Distributional properties
The phenomenon that in any language, certain sounds are more likely to appear together than others
Coo
Long, drawn-out sounds, OOHHH AHHHH
Babbling
Repetitive constant vowel sequences, Bababa, manual babualing = repeated hand movements for sign learners, 7 months
Beginning of communicative competance
- Turn-taking learning how to use language to converse with others, passive and active
- Intersubjectivity / joint attention, 2 interacting partners that share a mutual understanding
Reference
Associating words and meaning
Productive vocabulary
Woorden die het kind kan zeggen
Holophrastic period
Period when children begin using the words in their small productive vocabulary one word at a time.