The brain
Loss of language - often due to a stroke or other brain damage
What is aphasia?
Producing consonant and vowel syllables and other noises in a playful manner
What is vocal play?
A distinctive speech sound
What is a phoneme?
Establishing eye contact and looking/thinking about the same thing.
What is shared reference?
Children use different strategies to learn how to put sounds together into words.
What is cognitive theory?
The area of the brain where speech production is controlled
What is Broca's area?
What is cooing?
Lips, teeth, and alveolar ridge
What are places of articulation?
Adults or older children support younger children's speech and language to help them participate at a higher level.
What is linguistic scaffolding?
90% of subjects can produce a sound by a certain age
What is mastery of correct production?
The brain and spinal cord
Producing consonant-vowel syllables with more consonants and vowels in complicated combinations
What is variegated babbling?
Vocal fold vibration for some sounds
What is voicing?
Speech directed towards young children
What is child-directed speech?
All children are predisposed to produce the same initial motor acts for speech.
What is the biological theory?
Left and right
What are hemispheres?
Cries and noises when hungry, in pain, or uncomfortable
What are reflexive noises?
Stops, fricatives, nasals, glides
What are manners of articulation?
An adult describes an object or action in a developmentally appropriate way.
A theory that children suppress phonological processes that are not part of their language.
What is the natural phonology theory?
The area of the brain where comprehension and word meaning occur.
What is Wernicke's area?
Sound combinations that are purposive, consistent, and used to convey a specific meaning
What are meaningful words?
What is vowel classification?
A cyclical sharing and exchanging of speaking and listening.
What is a communication loop?
Children learn words by attending to salient characteristics of words such as manner, but ALSO prosodic features such as patterns and stress.
What is the prosodic theory?