Quiz 1
A morpheme is the ____ unit of language that carries meaning.
nsmallest
acquiring the rules of language that govern the sound structure of syllables and words is...
phonotactic rules or constraints
Cooing and gooing is what stage of babbling
stage 2 (1-4 months)
What is meant by a shifting source of language input in school age?
Language input moving from oral language to text based language input.
You learn one language first and then another language later
What is sequential bilingualism?
The smallest unit of sound is called a what?
a phoneme
What area of speech involves rhythm, pitch, loudness, and intonation?
Prosody
What is it called when a child is babbling in a way that containing at least two syllables and at least two different consonants and vowels, as well as varied stress or intonation patterns
Jargon
Relies heavily on the language itself in the construction of meaning, abstract, no context clues, advanced
What is decontextualized language?
A time when a child may not talk at all due to absorbing another language.
What is the silent period?
Phonology, Morphology and Syntax fall under what language domain?
Form
What is the bridge between language and reading?
phonics
Speech that is high and exaggerated pitch with slow tempo are examples of what?
Motherese or infant-directed speech
The earliest period of learning about reading and writing is called what?
Emergent literacy
A typical process where a child speaking two languages at that same time (simultaneously).
What is code-switching?
What is auditory perception versus speech perception?
Auditory- hearing sounds
Speech- hearing speech/language
This changes the word’s form but not the meaning
Grammatical morphemes
Attendance to social partners, emergence and coordination and transition to language are phases of what?
Joint reference or attention
DAILY DOUBLE: The ability to view language as an object of attention is...
What is metalinguistics?
A dialect is considered a disorder (true/false?)
False
Oral communication is a combination of what two skills?
speaking and listening
Children with SLI have the most difficulty with what area of morphology?
grammar- tense marking (aka verbs)
What does the still face experiment prove?
That babies quickly have expectations with regards to social interactions, that there is a back and forth in interactions
How many words do preschoolers acquire each year?
860
African American English is an example of
a dialect