Types of Language
Language Development Timetable
Phonological Knowlege
Morphemic Knowledge
Pragmatic Knowlege
100
Knowledge that word labels specify concepts and semantic networks.
What is semantic knowledge?
100
Critical from birth to 10 years of age.
What is phonetic knowledge?
100
knowledge about the sound-symbol relationships in a language.
What is phonological knowledge?
100
Knowledge of word structure.
What is morphemic knowledge?
100
knowledge of the overall intent of language in social-cultural interactions.
What is pragmatic knowledge?
200
Knowledge of how to use language to communicate.
What is linguistic knowledge?
200
Critical from birth to twelve years of age.
What is syntactic knowledge?
200
Children must be able to represent these in their own language.
What is sounds?
200
The smallest unit of meaning in language.
What is a morpheme?
200
The specific ways of using language differently in different settings.
What is register?
300
Knowledge of how words are combined to create sentences and meaningful phrases.
What is syntactic knowledge?
300
Critical from birth to twelve years of age.
What is morphemic knowledge?
300
Smallest unit of meaningful sound in a language.
What is a phoneme?
300
When children use regular patterns to irregular words.
What is over-generalization?
300
The knowledge of how language is used in relation to one's gender.
What is genderlect?
400
Conscious awareness of specific features of language.
What is meta-linguistic knowledge?
400
Critical from birth throughout life.
What is semantic knowledge?
400
Actual letters.
What is graphemes?
400
This might change the meaning of a word.
What is word endings?
400
This type of child might have a lot of problems identifying pragmatics in language.
What is an autistic child?
500
Can verbally respond to questions about specific language features.
What is verbalization of meta-linguistic knowledge?
500
Critical from birth throughout life.
What is pragmatic knowledge?
500
A child must be able to do this when reading symbols.
What is decode?
500
What a teacher is really focusing on when going over morphemic knowledge.
What is grammar/spelling?
500
Also called "pragmatic features."
What is prosodic features?
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