The different sounds that occur in speech but are not used contrastively to encode differences in meaning between words are called
Jargon is
44. Syntax begin to emerge in children’s speech
The properties of care-givers’ speech that have an effect on children’s rate of language development
Phonotactics refers to
The purpose of the wug-task experiment is to demonstrate the following types of linguistic knowledge in young children
English sounds that are alveolar
Define fast-mapping.
The three main articulatory dimensions used to describe consonant sounds are
The following syllabic patterns is common in children’s first words:
46. The common relational meanings expressed by children’s 2-word utterances
The p-sounds in the English words “pat” and “tap” are
What are different allophones of the same phoneme?
The manner of articulation of the consonants [v, f, s, and z] is
Language productivity or generatively
A child is presented with a picture of an unfamiliar horned and hooved animal and told it is a “hyrax”. Then the child is asked, “which one is also a hyrax” and shown a picture of three other animals, one of which is a familiar one (e.g., dog, another one looks like a whimsical fairy tale animal with wings and neither hooves nor horns, and a third one that has horns and hooves of the same shape as the “hyrax”. The child would be likely to point to the third picture because he is being guided by what constraints.
The consonants [p, t, k] are
Children at the Brown’s Stage 1- 5 have the following MLU ranges
A child is presented with a picture and told, “This is a pagoda. Do you see the fancy finial?” The child correctly infers that the entire object is called a “pagoda” and that the ball on the top is called a “finial”. The word learning mechanisms this child uses to figure out the meanings of these words are