Vocabulary
Components of Language
Theories of Language Development
Phonology for age groups
Processing Strategies and Contraints
100
Language that is processing in the brain.
What is Receptive Language?
100
Language's sound system and rules for combining sounds.
What is Phonology?
100
Imitation, renforcement ad correction are responsible for learning language.
What is the learning and empiricist perspective?
100
Pronunciations begin to improve.
What is age 3-5?
100
The assumption that words refer to the whole objects rather than to parts of the objects.
What is Object Scope Constraint?
200
A way of expressing something in language, art, or music that is characteristic of a particular person, group of people, or period.
What is expressive style?
200
Meanings expressed in words.
What are Semantics?
200
Imitation and reinforcement are important but syntax is not generally reinforced.
What is the evolution of the learning perspective?
200
Receptivity to speech and discrimination of speech and sounds. Babbling begins to resemble the sounds of native language.
What is age 0-1.
200
The assumption that words label categories of similar objects that share common perceptual features.
What is Taxonomic Constraint.
300
Errors in early word use during linguistic development.
What is underextension?
300
Rules specifying how words are used to make sentences.
What is Syntax?
300
Humans are biologically programmed to acquire language.
What is the Nativist perspective?
300
Pronunciations become adult like.
What is 6- adolescence.
300
The assumption that each word has a unique meaning.
What is Lexical contrast constraint.
400
An error in early word use in which a child uses a single word to label multiple different things that is incorrect.
What is overextension?
400
Rules specifying how words are formed.
What is Morphology?
400
Language accusation device.
What is LAD?
400
Appearance of strategies to simplify word pronunciations.
What is ages 1-2.
400
The assumption that each object has one label and that different words refer to separate, non overlapping, categories.
What is Mutual Exclusivity.
500
The mental process where a new concept is learned or a new hypothesis formed based only on one single exposure to a given unit of information.
What is Fast Mapping?
500
Knowledge on how language is used to communicate effectively.
What is Pragmatics?
500
Biologically prepared to acquire language as a function of gradual brain maturation.
What is the interactionist perspective?
500
Pronunciations are clear and sophisticated.
What is adolescence and on?
500
An example would be: The child concludes that the word "kitty" refers to the animal that has four legs and is furry.
What is Taxonomic constraint.
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