Normal Language Acquisition
Wh- questions used to obtain more than a yes/no answer
What are what, where, who, which, whose, when, why questions?
An intellectual disability that can hinder speech progression (discussed in class)
What is Object Permanence?
An advantage of bilingualism (only one)
What is increased metalinguistic awareness, increases in executive function, delayed onset of dementia, and improved ability to learn new and novel words?
A morpheme that can stand alone
What is a Free morpheme?
Babbling in the form of syllable strings with varying consonants and vowels
What is Variegated Babbling?
The act of repeating language heard in the speech of others
What is Echoalia?
The belief that the critical aspects of language are innate
What is nativism?
The practice of speakers alternating between two or more languages, dialects, or registers in conversation
What is Code Switching?
The process of associating a word with its meaning in development or vocabulary learning.
What is Word Mapping?
What is Consonant Deletion?
Birth defect that affects airflow and the ability to articulate speech sounds
What is a Cleft Lip and/or Palate?
The innate language component
What is the Language Acquisition Device?
What AAE stands for
What is African American English?
For example, a child saying falled, goed, mans, foots
What is an Overregularization Error?
Used in testing a child's language acquisition, where the child is asked to carry out a command or instruction
What are Direction Tasks?
Neurologically based motor speech disorder affecting speech production in children (other than Cerebral Palsy)
Support for language learning through adult assistance
What is Scaffolding?
What are Hispanics?
The number of words a child knows
What is Vocabulary breadth?
The first 5 of the average order of acquisition of 14 grammatical morphemes
What is the 1. Present Progressive, 2. Prepositions, 3. Plural, 4. Irregular past tense, 5.Possessive
2 examples of indicators of delayed or deviant communicative development
What is Failure to babble by 12 months; lack of conventionalized gestures; no spoken words by 18 months; fewer than 50 single words, and no 2-word combinations by 24 months; any evidence of speech or language regression, regardless of age
The insistence that the complex structures of language are not innate nor learned, rather these structures emerge as a result of the continuing interaction between the child's current level of cognitive functioning and their current linguistic, and nonlinguistic environment.
What is Constructivism?
Spanish, Italian
Thinking that is logical and scientific
What is paradigmatic mode?