Lexical/ semantic development

Question 1

define virtuous error

Answer 1

any speech mistake a child makes

Question 2

define addition (virtuous error)

Answer 2

adding a sound to the end of a word eg: dog becomes doggie

Question 3

define reduplication (virtuous error)

Answer 3

repeating the same sound eg: choochoo

Question 4

define deletion (virtuous error)

Answer 4

usually occurs on the last phoneme of a word eg: cat becomes ca.
This also applies to words when the emphasis in at the back of the word, eg: banana becomes nana

Question 5

define consonant cluster reduction (virtuous error)

Answer 5

children find groups of consonants hard to pronounce, so they will often reduce consonant groups to smaller units

Question 6

define substitution (virtuous error)

Answer 6

when children replace a difficult sound with an easier one eg: zebra becomes debra

Question 7

define assimilation (virtuous error)

Answer 7

where substitution occurs, but the sound changes because of the other sounds around it eg: dog becomes gog

Question 8

eve clark on extensions

Answer 8

children are likely to over-extend or under-extend

Question 9

define extensions (virtuous error)

Answer 9

not applying correct semantic meaning behind a word

Question 10

aitchison’s 3 stages of semantic development:

Answer 10

labelling, packaging, network building

Question 11

define aitchison’s term labelling

Answer 11

realizing everything has a label

Question 12

define aitchisons term packaging

Answer 12

exploring labelling. this is where over and under extension occurs

Question 13

define aitchisons term netwrok building

Answer 13

learning that some labels are close in meaning or are related

Question 14

sinclair and coulthard on pragmatics

Answer 14

identified lots of conversations with children follow these turn takings: initiation/ response/ feedback