Foundations
The three domains of language in Bloom & Lahey's model.
What is Form, Content, and Use?
The thin outer layer of the brain.
What is the cerebrum or cerebral cortex?
The debate regarding how infants learn language.
What is the Nature versus nurture debate?
The ability to devote attention to the prosodic and phonetic regularities of speech; Develops greatly over the first year.
What is speech perception ability?
This is an example of a general nominal.
what is _____?
Acquiring the rules of language that govern how language is used in social interactions for instrumental purposes.
Pragmatic development
This hemisphere is usually dominant for language.
What is the Left hemisphere?
Theory that stresses the importance of social interaction for children’s language development.
What is Social-Interactionist Theory?
Age when ability to distinguish non-native phonemic contrasts diminishes.
What is 9 months of age?
By what age are children producing 50 words on average?
What is 18 months?
In Bloom & Lahey's model, the three subdomains under "Form"
What are
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax ?
The four lobes of the brain.
What are the frontal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe, and parietal lobe?
The system of grammatical rules and constraints consistent in all world languages.
What is Universal Grammar?
Gestures that do not rely on context for meaning.
What are representational gestures?
When one label is used for a large category of things.
What is overextension?
These add grammatical inflections to words.
What are inflectional morphemes?
Area at the base of the motor cortex of the left frontal lobe; Responsible for the fine coordination of speech output.
What is Broca's Area?
A nuture-inspired theory that states that all learning is the result of operant conditioning.
What is Behaviorist Theory?
Diphthongs, Complex consonant vowel combinations, and Jargon emerge in this stage of Stark's Early Vocal Development.
What is Advanced forms (9-18 months)?
The phonological process exhibited by a child who uses "ca" for "cat" and "ba" for "ball."
What is final consonant deletion?
Neurological imprint of a phoneme that differentiates it from other phonemes.
What is Phonological representation?
Point of convergence for receiving and integrating associations from throughout the brain.
What is Wernicke's area?
Universal Grammar, Modularity Theory, and Bootstrapping Theory are examples of these types of theory.
What are nature-inspired theories?
The phase of Speech Act Development when intentionality is observed and child looks at the adult to request or to tell them something.
What is Illocutionary (10-12 months)?
A child who says "no bath" to mean that he does not want to take a bath is using this type of semantic relation
rejection