Domains and Theories of Language
This is the study of a sound system of a language.
What is phonology?
This is the type of word class that comprises the majority of the first fifty words in a typical child's expressive vocabulary.
What is nouns?
This is the primary driver of word learning in the school age years.
What is reading?
This is the term for attaching meaning to a newly encountered word.
What is (fast) mapping?
The is the study of linguistic meaning.
What is semantics?
This is the number of words average children in their productive lexicon at 18 months.
What is 50 (words)?
This is the medium in which children are exposed most frequently to new or rare words.
What is written literature (children's books)?
This is the principle which describes how different words generally have different referents.
What is the mutual exclusivity principle?
This is the property of language which allows a speaker to discuss past or future events.
What is decontextualization?
This is a common way to describe the trajectory of early word learning.
What is comprehension leading (preceding) production?
This is the skill of using semantic and syntactic clues in a passage to figure out the meaning of a new word.
What is contextual abstraction?
This is the idea that words can be organized hierarchically.
What is the taxonomic assumption?
The idea that a native speaker knows the grammar of the language at an intuitive level and does not need explicit instruction.
What is linguistic competence?
This is the age by which we expect a typically developing child to follow an adult's eye gaze as a clue to word meaning.
What is 18 months of age?
This is the process of breaking unfamiliar words into their constituent parts to understand meaning.
What is morphological decomposition?
This is the idea that a word does not just refer to a portion of an item.
What is the whole object assumption?
These are 3 domains of language aside from phonology and semantics.
What are pragmatics, syntax, and morphology?
What is over-extension?
When children encounter a morphologically complex word, they are more easily able to derive its meaning if there is no change in this.
What is the phonetic form of the root (word)?
This is one of the ideas for how children extend the use of words which posits that a representation begins with 1 or 2 perceptual attributes, and, as more are added, the words start to be used in more adult-like ways.
What is the semantic feature hypothesis?