Role of the Adult
Joint focus of attention, listening, signaling of understanding, taking account of common ground, and tailoring utterances, and choosing speech acts according to all make for ______?
What is effective communication?
When you identify bound and free morphemes, anticipate cross-linguistic variability based on language type and gather as many utterances as you can, that exclude imitations, repetitions and false starts.
What is Calculating Mean Length of Utterances
A child is presented with two familiar objects and one unfamiliar object. When asked to identify the blick, they point to the unfamiliar object.
What is mutual exclusivity? OR What is novel name - novel object?
Name that phonological process: bottle→ [baba], lamb→ [næm], little→ [lIdIw]
What is harmony?
This is the language that children are exposed to; the cues and examples they hear from their caregivers and others who engage in meaningful linguistic exchanges with them.
What is positive evidence?
The syntactic qualities in the following sentence: ‘They go to sleep when it’s bedtime’
What is Embedding / Subordination / Adjunct
Does that one-word utterance mean "rabbit," or "look at that small mammal hopping by," or "I don't understand what you're saying"?
What is the gavagai problem?
Name that phonological process: duck→ [gʌk], bunny→ [nʌni].
What is assimilation?
When children repeat and imitate their caregivers, this is considered to be ______?
What is reproduction of their utterance?
During the 2-word stage, morphemes and many functional elements are still missing, most utterances are about the ‘here and now’ and speech is ____
What is Telegraphic
Identifying meaningful sound chunks is difficult because, in a continuous speech stream, words can comprise other words and are not learned on their own.
What is the segmentation problem?
Type of babbling: Repeated syllables, CVCV, usually occurs around 6-9 months.
What is canonical babbling?
When caregivers add further facts about activities, properties, states, relations etc. to their child’s utterances, what are they doing?
What is expansion?
Around 18-24 months of age, children begin producing these kinds of utterances
What is Multi-Word Utterances
A sound used consistently to label the same meaning, across various contexts, produced in a semblance of the conventional form used by the speech community, for the purpose of communication.
What is a word?
At about this age, babies lose the ability to discriminate between sounds not belonging to their native language.
What is 12 months?
Shorter utterances, more questions, routine exchanges, more repetition of vocabulary, higher F0 pitch are all characteristics of what kind of speech?
What is infant-directed speech?
The child’s syntax expands rapidly from simple sentences to an increased amount of complex sentences with more than one VP at about what age range
What is 2 to 3.5 years of age
Player learns about labels by testing hypotheses about which categories they can be used to reference, with feedback from tutor.
What is Roger Brown's "Original Word Game"?
At this age, babies are sensitive to mispronunciations of known words (i.e. [bebi vs. vebi]).
What is 18-24 months?
Using the following excerpt from a conversation between a child and the investigator of this research study Gail (GAI), determine how old the child is. Your answer should be in a whole number age range. Ex. You could say 1-2 years old but not 1 and a half to 2 years old.
GAI: where did you get this book (.) by the way ?
CHI: huh ?
GAI: where'd you get this book ?
CHI: from Teppy .
GAI: Teppy ?
CHI: he's a cat .
GAI: whose cat is he ?
GAI: who are you pointing to ?
CHI: see ?
CHI: see that house over there ?
GAI: yeah .
CHI: well (.) dat [: that's] where Teppy lives .
GAI: oh (.) with whom ?
CHI: with my Nana .
CHI: it ain't very far away from my Nana (.) is it ?
GAI: no (.) you don't live far from your Nana at all .
GAI: if you call her out the window (.) does she hear you ?
CHI: uhhuh .
4-5 years old; actual age 4;11.04