Dialect
Theory
phonological processes
Natural Development
phonological awareness
100
This term describes dialects that also have the heavy presence of grammatical or vocabulary changes that accompany the articulatory variations. 

What is vernacular?

100

This theory attempts to determine the specific properties of a sound that serve to signal meaning differences in a language and assigns them a binary code. 

What is Distinctive Feature Theory?

100
[wawa] for "water"

What is reduplication?

100

This type of behavior refers to all of a child's vocalizations prior to their first words.

What is prelinguistic behavior?

100

This type of phonological awareness activity encourages the student to identify and manipulate parts of a word.

What is syllable awareness?

200

Three examples of changes to articulation of speech due to variations in dialect. 

"r" ness, stress, and vowels

200

Distinct Feature Theory supports this therapeutic approach of choosing the two sounds that have the most distinct feature differences.

What is the Maximal Oppositions Approach?

200

[nænɘ] for "banana"

What is weak syllable deletion?

200

At the end of this stage of Preliinguistic Behavior, the beginning of imitative behaviors begin to emerge.

What is stage IV?

200

This type of phonological awareness activity encourages the student to identify and manipulate the onset and peak-coda unit of a word. 

What is an onset-rime activity?

300

This is a dialect of General American English.

What is Standard English?

300

This theory describes the normal development of a child's phonological system.

What is natural phonology theory?

300

[ti] for "key"

Fronting

300

In stage 5 of prelinguistic behavior the child begins to use this type of utterance, which is marked by modulated intonation, rhythm and pausing.

What is jargon?

300

This type of phonological awareness activity encourages the student to identify and manipulate individual sounds in words.

What is phonemic awareness activity?

400

This is the name for a person who studies dialect.

What is a dialectologist?

400

This term refers to the normal abolishment of one or more phonological processes as children move from the innate speech patterns to the adult patterns.

What is suppression?

400

[tʌn] for "sun"

What is stopping?

400

The emergence of the first word marks the beginning of this phase.

What is the linguistic phase?

400

There is a positive correlation between phonological awareness and these skills.

What is reading and spelling?

500

This is the ability to switch back and forth between use of a dialect and Standard American English.

What is code switching?

500

Final Consonant Deletion is this type of phonological process.

What is syllable structure?

500

[ʧu] for "shoe"

What is affrication?

500

This is when the largest growth in the phonological system occurs.

What is preschool? (ages 18-30 months)
500

Phonological awareness is a subcategory of this type of processing.

What is phonological processing?

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