Invitations to Use

Seeking Patterns
The Brain & Language
A Social Experience
Emergence of Speech
100

Teachers support language development by describing this. 

What is the baby's intention?

100

A form of child-directed speech where words like, "baaabieee!" are in an exaggerated pattern.

What is parentese?

100

Babies need __________ in order to learn language.

What is interactive language partners?

100

By the age of 1 babies know that this action connects them to other people's thinking.

What is pointing?

100

A pattern of vowels that marks a babies first attempt to enter into conversation.

What is cooing?

200

These types of narration occur naturally and effectively during care-giving routines such as mealtimes and diapering.

What are self- talk and parallel talk?

200

Mostly a non-verbal dialogue where voice, hands and eyebrows engage in rhythmic pattern. 

What is protoconversations?

200

Babies efficiently map multiple languages in the brain if the are provided these.

What are regular conversation partners?
200

This common communication strategy used with babies needs to be accompanied by natural 'verbal' speech.

What are baby signs?
200

Hearing babies and babies that are deaf babble with the movement of these 4 body parts.

What is mouth, throat, tongue and hands?
300

This widely used and evidence based strategy in supporting language development describes and narrates what happens in the moment. 

What is parallel talk?

300

Distinct patterned intervals that coincide with the rhythmic cycles of the human body.

What is a typical lullaby or nursery rhyme?

300

No matter where babies are born they can detect every sound spoken in every language around the world. At birth there are like_________________.

What are citizens of the world?

300

Word knowledge increased by this many in a research of using baby signs.

What is by 50 more words?

300

Babies string together key words to make sentences which is called this type of speech.

What is telegraphic speech?

400

This combination motivates toddlers to take the lead on parts of a story.

What is the combination of 'the expected with an element of surprise'?

400

The stretched out vowel sounds that help babies become familiar with small parts of the speech code.

What is a phoneme?

400

Babies figure out that some sound combinations occur together frequently whereas other sounds never occur together. Such sound sequences allow babies to understand this.

What are where words begin and end?

400

Visual media and background media poses a critical risk to a baby's language development under that age of two. Babies are impacted negatively in these two ways.

What is "no reciprocal interaction" and " reduce[d] sustained attention in play"?

400

Before babies are 1 year old they know a variety of words, however this versus this does not demonstrate an equal amount of words.

What is receptive language versus expressive language?

500

Toddlers are observant of this phenomenon.

What is writing?

500

Sound patterns are universally recognized and scientists attribute this to a result of something.

What is attunement?

500

Networks of neurons form language structures that serve as this type of tool for babies to use in their next phase of language development.

What is a language map?

500

The use of media with children under the age of 2 years is definitely not this.

What is educational?
500

The peak of synapse formation along with hearing and seeing language supports infants cognitive abilities to know what makes sense to others.

What is syntax?

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