Phonology
Three distinctive features of consonants
What is manner of articulation, place of articulation, voicing?
Small units of language added to words to add grammatical meaning
What are grammatical morphemes?
One of the reasons receptive language proceeds expressive language during early language development
What is not having to organize words in a grammatical way?
Fruit...apple...granny smith
What are superordinate, basic, subordinate category examples?
Type of pointing used to ask for help
What is imperative pointing?
Three criterion to meet in order to count as a first true word
What is: produce word with clear purpose, recognizable pronunciation, word extends beyond original context?
Morphology
What is the component of language governing the rules of the internal structure of words?
The first sign of grammar
What is the 2-word stage (e.g. Agent + Object)?
Often referred to as an "explosion" of word learning that happens around 18 months
What is vocabulary spurt?
Triadic relationship between social partner and object
What is joint attention?
Systematic, rule-governed patterns of errors toddlers use to simplify their speech
What are phonological processes?
Prefixes and suffixes added to words, which create new meaning of words and may change the part of speech
Mean Length of Utterance
What is one way of measuring a child's complexity of syntax?
Assumptions children make about words
What are: mutual exclusivity, words are extendable, and words refer to whole objects?
Ability to think about other's thoughts and feelings
What is Theory of Mind (ToM)?
Percent intelligibility a 4 year-old should be to an unfamiliar listener
What is 100%?
The form of the verb "to be" used in the example: "I'm signing in the rain"
What is contractible auxiliary?
Ways preschoolers' sentences are moving from a simple to more complex.
What is adding clauses (indep. & dep) and using conjunctions?
Word errors that young kids make that might be a clue that production (expressive lang.) is happening before comprehension (recep. lang.)
What is overextension and underextension?
Imaginative, Information, Heuristic, etc.
What are examples of children's function/purpose of language proposed by Halliday?
Letter knowledge, print awareness, phonological awareness, vocabulary growth.
What are emergent literacy skills?
"She has a dog" is an example of this later developing grammatical morpheme
What is irregular third person singular?
"What" "Where" & "Who" followed by "When" "How" & "Why"
Names of shapes, colors, textures, emotions, etc.
What are basic concepts?
Wait & listen...follow child's lead...join in and play...being face to face...expanding & extending child's utterances, etc.
What are examples of caregiver's responsiveness?