Vocabulary
44 sounds by individual letters and/or combination of letters that make sounds
What is Phonemes?
They often talk to themselves or by themselves as they play as to try to articulate their actions.
From ages 3-4
Language that is used to influence the behavior of others, including persuading, commanding or requesting
What is Regulatory Function?
The meaning of words that language communicates through content words and function words.
What is Semantic?
Observe and produced speech that occurs in the interaction of speaker and listener.
What is the Behaviorist Theory?
Typically oral vocabulary grows from 300 word to 1000.
Ages from 2-3
What is Interactional Function?
Brain connections that are repeated and used become permanent; when brain connections are used, they disintegrate and vanish.
What is Neural Shearing?
Language is active and social process for children to be able to learn by problem solving
What is the Constructivist Theory?
Good conversationalist who talk a lot about what they do.
Language that expresses personal opinion, attitudes and feeling including a speaker's identity.
The grammatical rules of how words work together in phrases, clause, and sentences?
Human learn language innately, children figure out the rules of language works by internalizing the rules of grammar, which enables them to produce an infinite number of sentences.
What is the Nativist Theory?
Children begin to use telegraphic speech at this age
Language that is used to fulfill a need such as fool, drink or comfort.
What is Instrumental Function?
An independent clause with all it dependents clauses attached, assuming it has dependents.
What is T-Unit?
Children learn through cognitive development. Touching, hearing, seeing, and smelling s part of their early language skills.
Language that is used to explore, learn and discover. This could include question or running commentary of a child's actions.
What is Heuristic Function?