phonological acquisition

Question 1

What is phonological acquisition?

Answer 1

The process through which individuals acquire the ability to produce and understand the sounds of their language.

Question 2

True or False: Phonological acquisition refers to the development of writing skills.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

What are phonemes?

Answer 3

The smallest units of sound that can distinguish words in a language.

Question 4

Fill in the blank: Phonological acquisition involves the learning of ____________ in a language.

Answer 4

phonemes

Question 5

What is the role of phonological awareness in phonological acquisition?

Answer 5

The ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds of language.

Question 6

who states that language is inate and preprogrammmed due to universal language? (LAD)

Answer 6

chomsky.

Question 7

first stage of acquisition?

Answer 7

holophrastic - 1 word utterances.

Question 8

What are some factors that can influence phonological acquisition?

Answer 8

Language exposure, genetics, environment, and cognitive abilities.

Question 9

second stage of acquisition?

Answer 9

two word stage.

Question 10

What is the critical period hypothesis in relation to phonological acquisition?

Answer 10

The idea that there is a limited window of time during which language acquisition, including phonological acquisition, is most successful.

Question 11

What is the role of babbling in phonological acquisition?

Answer 11

Babbling allows infants to practice producing sounds and eventually leads to the development of speech sounds.

Question 12

third stage of acquisition?

Answer 12

telegraphic - 3+ words combined.

Question 13

fourth stage of acquisition?

Answer 13

post telegraphic- grammatically correct and complex combinations.

Question 14

what are the 4 types of sound and an example of each?

Answer 14

plosive - b,d,p
fricative - v,s,h
africative - ‘dg’
nasals - m,n

Question 15

which types of sound come first?

Answer 15

plosives, fricatives, africatives.

Question 16

What is morphology?

Answer 16

changing a word in order to create a new meaning.

Question 17

what is universal grammar?

Answer 17

Chomsky’s idea that we all have LAD naturally to learn language and grammar.

Question 18

what is a dipthong?

Answer 18

sound formed by combination of two vowels in one syllable.

Question 19

what is statistical analysis?

Answer 19

process of elimination of what sounds make certain words.

Question 20

what is deletion?

Answer 20

omitting final consonant of a word.

Question 21

what is substitution?

Answer 21

substituting one sound for another.

Question 22

what is addition?

Answer 22

adding extra vowel sounds to the end of words to make it more rhythmic. eg doggy.

Question 23

what is reduplication?

Answer 23

repeating a whole syllable eg mama.

Question 24

what is a consonant cluster reduction?

Answer 24

sounds with two consonants which can be difficult to articulate so are reduced to smaller units. eg ‘cr’, ‘pl’

Question 25

name the 6 main methods that children use to make language more accessible to them.

Answer 25

deletion, substitution, addition, consonant cluster reduction, reduplication, reduction of unstressed syllables.

Question 26

what did Cruttenden find about prosody?

Answer 26

children under 7 are less likely to understand prosodic features like raising intonation. eg anouncing football winners.

Question 27

who found that children could understand a word before actually being able to say it?

Answer 27

Berko and Gleason - fis = fish not fis.

Question 28

what does Skinner say that behavourism suggests?

Answer 28

language is acquired through repetition and positive reinforcement.

Question 29

social interactionism emphasises what?

Answer 29

role of the caregiver in development.

Question 30

who are social interactionists?

Answer 30

Piaget and Vygotsky.