Infancy
Input characterized by repetitiveness, higher pitch, shorter length, and more content words
What is Infant-Directed Speech?
Can be characterized as deictic or referential
What are gestures?
A development of early literacy in which children start to notice and attend to print
What is print awareness?
Idioms and metaphors and similes, oh my
What is figurative language?
The study of language meaning
What is semantics?
Infants use this to group objects by their use
What is conceptual categorization?
A word learning strategy used by infants which allows them to match a referent object to it's label in as little as one exposure
What is fast mapping?
Information gathering that is often short and/or informal and is used to determine if further assessment is required
What is screening?
A skill associated with early literacy that describes how children understand, compare, and manipulate sounds within words
What is phonological awareness?
The study of contextualized meaning in language
What is pragmatics?
A development in speech perception that occurs during infancy and allows listeners to ignore subtle acoustic differences to meaningfully differentiate speech sounds
What is categorical perception?
This language milestone often marks the beginning of grammatical morpheme development
What is a 50 word (expressive) vocabulary?
What are narratives?
The study of language structures
What is Syntax?
The stress and intonation patterns that are permissible and typical in a language which infants develop sensitivity to during their first year
What are prosodic regularities?
The ability to understand that others hold different ideas, preferences, knowledge, and beliefs from oneself
What is Theory of Mind?
What is decontextualized language?
A word learning strategy in which a words meaning if explicitly taught to the child
What is morphology?
The age at which infants show a preference for the stress pattern of their native language
What is 9 months?
An expressive vocabulary size of less than 50 words at 24 months of age characterizes this
What is a late talker/ what is late language emergence?
At type of authentic assessment used by researchers and clinicians to get an idea of a child's language skills through the collection of at least 50 (but ideally at least 100) utterances
What is language sample analysis?
"The man walked the dog with the scarf" could mean two things. During the school age period, children develop the ability to 'solve' unknown meaning such as this, known as...
What is sentential ambiguity
What is phonology?