Linguistic features Flashcards
What is a more knowledgable other?
belief that other people such as parents, siblings, teachers play a significant role in the learning of children and their development.
overgeneralisation ?
extension of words/grammatical rules beyond their normal use
CDS- Child Directed Speech?
speech patterns used by parents to givers when communicating with young children.
Scaffolding?
transferring skills from an adult to a child and then withdrawing them once that skill has been supported.
Recasting?
Taking response of a child and reformulating it to make it correct.
Expansion?
developing or extending on a child’s response to correct the phrasing
Open Question?
A question that requires more thought and detail in its response.
Closed Question?
A question which requires a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’
Back Channelling?
‘mhm’ that signal that they are listening in the conversation, parents
Paralinguistic features?
Body Lang
Adjacency Pairs?
Turn-taking style of conversation
Terms of Address?
The manner in which is referred to when speaking to someone - formal or informal= ‘mummy’, ‘sir’
Deletion?
Omitting the final consonant in words: ‘do(g)
Substitution?
Subsitituting harder sounds= ship= pip
Addition?
Adding an extra vowel to the end of words = CVCV pattern = ‘doggie’
Assimilation?
Changing one consonant or vowel for another= dog= gog
Reduplication?
repeating a whole syllable = dada, mama
Consonant cluster reduction?
pider for spider
Deletion unstressed syllables?
Omitting opening syllable in polysyllabic words= nana= banana
Negative formation?
Saying no at the beginning of a sentence or at the end, not in the middle attached to the auxiliary verb= Bellugi
Plosive?
Air is stopped and suddenly released to be spoken
Universal Grammar?
Language sharing principles of grammar despite the surface differences of lexis or phonology = Chomsky
Phonemic Expansion?
The variety of sounds increase, cooing to babbling
Phonemic contraction?
Variety of sounds reduced to the sounds in the main language used
