Language Learning strategies
First Words
Toddlerhood
Word Representations: Semantics
Word Representations: Phonology
100

listening to the syllable stress in words and identifying the strong-weak stress pattern

trochaic bias

100

between 12-24 months, children will use ______________ to support their language

gestures

100

Around __________ months of age there is a vocabulary explosion

18 months

100

theory that looks at present and perceivable features, does not allow for identifying abstract features

semantic feature theory

100

______________ has a strong influence on first word production

phonological development

200

the thought that you find strength/knowledge in what you already know/have to do something hard/new

bootstrapping

200

The first word typically appears around __________

12 months. 


200

Learning a new word with only 3 exposures is referred to as _________

fast mapping

200

restricted meaning of words is _______________ vs. stretching the concept of a word meaning is __________

underextension, overextension

200

around ~12-24 months, children learn words ___________ and store them in chunks rather than at a phonemic level

holistically

300

model of development that uses 4 general stages/periods to describe milestones

Piaget's Stage Model of Cognitive Development


300

When a word is related to the "here and now." It has the same function no matter where it's used 

context-bound

300

when do children typically start to have early multiword combinations

~18 months of age

300

objects are grouped by function or action based on experience with an object

functional-core theory

300

systematic procedures used by children to make adult words pronounceable

phonological processes

400

The 4 stages of play are _______, _________, ____________, _______________.

solitary, parallel, associative, cooperative
400

when a word can be used in a wider range of situations- shift from context-bound to referential

decontextualization

400

Why do children start to have an increase in learning around 18-24 months?

-maturation of memory & attention, starting to learn communicative intentions of other people, increased awareness of objects, language builds on itself

400
theory that forms a category by using the "average" (or best and ideal) exemplar 

prototype theory

400

the likelihood of a sound pattern occurring, where common sounds sequences are perceived and produced more quickly than uncommon sound sequences

phonotactic probability

500

Using knowledge of syntax to learn the meanings or words

syntactic bootstrapping

500

The first 50 words are typically ________________

general nominals (common nouns)

500

After the _________ word milestone, there is an increased rate of word learning. 

50

500

organizing individual concepts as a nodes with features branching off

hierarchical network model

500

a set of words that differ by a single phoneme, these similar sounding words cluster together and are stored in either dense or sparse areas. This concept is called _____________________

neighborhood density

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