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Phonological Development
Communication Development
Semantics
Language Theories
100
Before words emerge, children link sounds together such as bababa...Development of sound and sound patterns is what broad component of language?
What is phonological development (phonology)?
100
The place of articulation for these consonants /k/ /g/ and "ng"
What is velar?
100
June waves good-bye as she leaves daycare. Based on Dore's list, what communicative function (act) is she displaying?
What is greeting?
100
In the bird category, a penguin is an example of what type of member?
What is non-prototypical?
100
Chomsky believed all individuals (across languages) contained an innate understanding of rules for word and sentence construction. The name for this part of Chomsky's theory is...
What is Universal Grammar?
200
The age at which children, on average, say at least 50 words.
What is 2 years?
200
What is a feature that differs for these two consonants? /f/ and /v/
What is voicing?
200
At what age do infants seem to lose the ability to perceive phonetic differences that are not important in their home language?
What is 10-12 months of age?
200
A term that describes the way that word meanings are organized in relation to each other....
What is semantic network?
200
When comparing structuralists vs. functionalists, what part of language most interests structuralists?
What is the form of language? (syntax or grammar is ok too)
300
A child who knows that the word "caterpillar" is longer than the word "snake" shows this type of knowledge
What is metalinguistic knowledge?
300
The age range at which vocal play is typical in infants...
What is 4 to 6 months?
300
In this learning pattern, infants gather multiple examples of important sounds, grammar structures, and words in their world in order to make sense of the most relevant language components and rules for their own language. This pattern is called... _____________________- learning.
What is statistical learning/
300
The name for typical examples of a specific word or concept...(e.g. chair is an example of a ______________ type of furniture)
What is prototypical?
300
Proponents of these theories claim that language develops through a stimulus-response pattern to the child's language attempts.
What is behaviorism?
400
One criterion distinct for human language is the ability to talk about something that is not present. This criterion is...
What is displacement?
400
Child A pronounces the word "cat" as "gat." This is what kind of phonological pattern?
What is voicing?
400
This is one criteria for recognizing intentional communication in a very young child?
What is (one of these is enough) 1) eye gaze 2 & 3)) consistent and ritualized interaction (gesture, then vocalization) 3) pausing to wait for a response 4) persistence in communication and modifying response
400
Children often use this lexical principle when learning new words - Each object can only have one label. Another term for this is...
What is the principle of mutual exclusivity?
400
Chomsky claimed that environment alone was not sufficient to explain language acquisition because of this argument... the __________________of _____________ argument.
What is poverty of stimulus argument?
500
Part of your brain that activates both when you do an activity and when you watch someone else do that activity.
What are mirror neurons?
500
Child D pronounces the word "stop" as "top" - this is what kind of phonological pattern?
What is cluster reduction?
500
Putting a desired toy out of reach so that a child has a chance to request it is an example of using what method to manipulate the situation?
What is a communicative temptation task?
500
For most children, their early vocabulary is made up of this percentage of nouns...
What is 40%?
500
Recent cognitive theories of language suggest that language processing occurs through multiple channels at the same time rather than one item at a time. This is called ________________ processing.
What is parallel processing?
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