Newborn- 9 mo.
This vowel height/openness is more common during 6-9 months
Low vowels (open vowels)
This is the number of words a baby learns from 10-14 months old
1 word per day
Cause and effect, needs and wants, sharing information, engaging in conversational exchange
What motivates children to change from preverbal communication to language?
“He, she” and “they” are all examples of what kind of word that toddlers begin to master
Pronouns
Preschoolers can show this type of awareness which is the ability to objectify language as a process as well as an object
What is metalinguistic
During 2-3 mo babies produce this kind of language which they use the back of their throat to create vowel sounds
What is cooing?
Most words produced at this age are from this word class
What are nouns?
This is the number of words a baby learns at 24 months
What are 10 new words a day?
Some movements a child can do at this age
Running, climbing, rides tricycles, playing pretend, doing puzzles
A child is able to understand that people have different thoughts, feelings, and intentions than their own
What is the Theory of Mind?
A way for researchers to measure a newborn’s response to stimuli
What is non nutritive sucking patterns and frequency?
This type of gesture can be found with babies from 10-12 months old
Waving
At 15 months, babies can produce this type of language such as “big car” or “where ball”
What is two-word utterances
Concepts like near, far, next to, behind, and under, are all examples of these relations that children this age understand
What are spatial relations?
A child in this age group is able to understand this…
What is ellipsis
The type of babbling a baby from 6 to 9 months produced
What is canonical babbling?
Children in this age group are able to respond to this type of sentence
Imperatives (simple requests)
Children this age might “feed” a baby doll, which is an example of this
What is playing pretend?
A child can recite this many count lists and recognize small amounts without counting up to this number range
3-4
A child at 54 months is able to recite count list past __
What is 100?
This part of the speech mechanism is placed higher than adults, then starts to descend around 4-6 months
What is the larynx?
At this stage children are better at ________ than ________.
What is comprehension and production?
This is the type of book that children 22-44 “read”
What are picture books
By 30-36 months, children develop this social skill, allowing them to have back and forth exchanges
What is conversational turn taking
Preschoolers can laugh at, tell, and appreciate these
What are jokes?