Major Issues in Language Development
Research Methods
Biological Bases of Language
Communicative Development
Everything Else
100
Something that stands for something else
What is a symbol?
100
Concious awareness of the rules of language
What is metalinguistic awareness?
100
Languages with a simple structure and borrowed vocabulary
What are pidgins?
100
The stage during which intentional communication occurs
What is the Illocutionary Phase?
100
Mental dictionary (words and associated knowledge)
What is a mental lexicon?
200
Smallest "sound unit" of a language
What is a phoneme?
200
Study in which the separate age groups of different people are all compared at one time
What is a cross-sectional study?
200
A language disorder in a previously intact individual, due to brain damage
What is aphasia?
200
When a child and adult attend together to some other entity
What is joint attention?
200
Changing one sentence type into another
What is sentence transformation?
300
Words that can stand alone and have meaning
What is a free morpheme?
300
The likelihood that one syllable will follow another
What is transitional probability?
300
A type of aphasia with slow, labored speech and good speech comprehension
What is Broca's Aphasia?
300
Using language in units larger than one sentence
What is discourse?
300
Appropriate use of language to express intentions and achieve goals in the social context
What is pragmatics?
400
The stress and intonation pattern of a language
What is prosody?
400
The words that the infants in the Saffran study listened to longer
What are novel words?
400
Cells that do computation in the brain and decrease from birth
What are neurons?
400
A style of scaffolding in which the adult asks for new information each time in order to develop the story
What is elaborative style?
400
What the experimenter measures
What is the dependent variable?
500
The theory that language and communication are intertwined and shaped around each other
What is functionalism?
500
What children can say vs. what children do say
What are productive language abilities?
500
The best evidence for the critical period hypothesis
What is the creolization of pidgins?
500
A scaffolding style in which the adult asks for repetitions of the same information?
What is repetitive style?
500
Tests of language abilities that are normed
What are standardized language tests?
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