Chapter 1
The sending and receiving of information, ideas, feelings, or messages.
What is communication.
The belief that children are born with a capacity for language.
What is the Nativist belief.
Proposed that there are 7 types of intelligence.
Who is Howard Gardner.
TRUE/FALSE: Children are born to talk but not born to speak a particular language or variety of a language; that is determined by environment.
What is True.
TRUE/FALSE: The child/fetus hears the mother’s voice amplified throughout her abdomen and vocal cord vibration.
What is True.
When we decide what we want to say and then actually speak it, sign it, or write it.
What is Expressive Language.
The belief that language is something humans do not something that they have.
What is the behaviorist belief.
In this stage of development children lack object permeance, beginning to learn causality, and starting to babble.
What is Substage 3 in the Sensorimotor Stage.
The care giver and child are focused on the same object/event.
What is joint attention/reference.
TRUE/FALSE: The child’s first words are things that matter most in their own world.
What is True.
When there is no relationship between sounds and their meanings.
What is Arbitrariness.
The belief that language development is a combination of biological and environmental factors.
What is the interactionist view point.
First step towards more elaborate cognitive skills.
What is private speech.
TRUE/FALSE: It is more difficult for children to learn items in semantic or similar phonetic categories.
What is false.
What skill aids these results:
attend to speech
discriminate among speech sounds
detect and generalize speech patterns
store and remember speech sound sequences
compare words to a model stored in memory
discriminate among intonation patterns
What is good hearing.
The ability to use speech to convey a specific message.
What is Semanticity.
When this part of the brain is injured it makes comprehension hard.
What is Wernicke's area.
When people work together on a common task with different levels of understanding and merge what they know to create a shared understanding to complete the task.
What is Intersubjectivity. (Part of ZPD).
bamavataga is an example of what?
What is Variegated babbling.
A child uses “doggie” to refer to the family pet and other four-legged animals (horses, cows, and goats).
What is overextension.
Known as the most important design feature of human speech.
What is Productivity.
Identify one case in this sentence
"Lauren did not enjoy listening to the music at the concert. "
What is
Lauren: Experiencer
Concert: Locative
Music: Objective
A child points to a glass of water and says "Wawa." They know this behaviour will result in someone handing them the water. What skill is described here?
What is means/end.
This is an example of...
What is expansion!
The adult expands the child's utterance by adding words and grammatical elements such as "you" and "some"
Describes gestures used by the child to control or manipulate the behaviors of others.
What is Protoimperative pointing.