Preschool 1
Language that is grounded in the here and now
What is contextualized language?
"Him wants chocolate" is an example of a child making this type of syntactical error common in preschool age.
Substituting objective pronoun for subjective pronouns
Being able to review and think about the words that are written is an example of this type of skill.
What is metalinguistic?
Term used to describe all of the elements of a narrative and the rules that govern those elements.
What is story grammar?
These are variants of a language that differ in how words are pronounced, the words that are used, and grammar.
What are dialects?
The understanding that something is true but others do not know it is true is an example of which skill?
Theory of Mind
This type of sentence contains a dependent and independent clause connected by a subordinating conjunction or relative pronoun.
Complex sentence
In reading development, children shift from "learning to read" to this.
What is "reading to learn"?
This is obtained by recording the child's language, then transcribing and analyzing it.
What is language sample analysis?
These are two types of barriers that separate people and can lead to the development of dialects.
What are geographical barriers and social barriers?
These are phonological processes that may not be suppressed in preschool period.
What are gliding and stopping of "th" and affricates?
After fast mapping, preschoolers use this strategy to improve and refine their representation of a word through hearing it in different contexts.
Slow mapping
Figurative language requires this type of competence.
What is metalinguistic competence?
Complex syntax development, morphological development, and phonological development are school age achievements in what language domain?
What is Form?
The fact that different dialects use different words to describe carbonated beverages (pop, soda, Coke) is an example of a dialectal feature in which language area.
What is semantics?
Children are able to move from highly ungrammatical to mostly grammatical during the preschool period using these two skills.
What are lengthening utterances and acquiring grammatical morphology?
Children’s written language skills depend on these skills they began to acquire in infancy and toddlerhood.
What are oral language skills?
This type of figurative language has both a literal and figurative meaning.
What are idioms?
In this type of language, children need to rely of the language itself rather than context to make meaning.
What is literate language?
This dialect involves consonant cluster reduction, phonological inversion, deletion of -s, and omission of "be" verbs.
What is African American Vernacular English (AAVE)?
"The girl sings" contains this Brown's grammatical morpheme.
What is regular third person singular –s?
Alphabet knowledge, print awareness, and phonological awareness are important achievements in this area for preschoolers.
What is Emergent Literacy?
These is a major achievement in Use seen in the preschool period in which the speaker carries the linguistic load.
What is narrative development?
Total number of word (TNW), Number of Different words (NDW) and Type token ratio are all these type of measures for Language Sample Analysis.
What are semantic measures?
This describes the process in which children essentially acquire two first languages, either simultaneously or sequentially.
What is Bilingualism?