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Components of Language
Theories of Language Development
Periods of Language Development
Vocabulary
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The meanings expressed in words and sentences.
What is Semantics
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The perspective that says children learn language through imitation and reinforcement. B.F. Skinner argued this.
What is The Learning (or Empiricist) Perspective
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Which period occurs during the first 10-13 months of life when infants are responsive to language but preverbal?
What is The Prelinguistic Period: Before Language
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This area of the brain is located in the frontal lobe of the left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex. Controls language production.
What is Broca's Area
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A young child's tendency to use relatively specific words to refer to a broader set of objects. (Using the word "Kitty" for all animals with fur and a tail)
What is Overextension
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The rules that specify how words are to be combined to form meaningful phrases and sentences.
What is Syntax
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According to this perspective, humans are biologically programmed to acquire language.
What is The Nativist Perspective
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During this period, infants utter single words that often seem to represent an entire sentence's worth of meaning. (The first stage of meaningful speech)
What is The Holophrase Period: One Word at a Time
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The loss of one or more language functions.
What is aphasia
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When young children infer what words mean based on the way they are used in sentences.
What is Syntactical Bootstrapping
300
Knowledge of how language might be used to communicate effectively.
What is Pragmatics
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Who is the linguist that is associated with the beginnings of the Nativist Perspective?
What is Noam Chomsky
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This period occurs at about 18-24 months of age, when children begin to combine words into simple sentences. These sentences only contain critical content words such as nouns and verbs.
What is The Telegraphic Period: From Holophrases to Simple Sentences
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Unique patterns of sound that a prelinguistic infant uses to represent objects, actions, or events.
What is vocables
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Early sentences that consist of content words and omit the less meaningful parts of speech.
What is Telegraphic Speech
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How words are formed from sounds. (Forming the past tense and forming plurals)
What is Morphology
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Which perspective believes that language comes from both environmental factors and biological programming?
What is The Interactionist Perspective
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This short period occurs from ages 2 1/2 to 5, when children form sentences that are remarkably complex and adult like. "Language explosion"
What is The Preschool Period
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Child-directed speech. (Very short, simple sentences) How parents and older siblings tend to address infants and toddlers. Often high-pitched.
What is motherese
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When young children tend to use general words to refer to a smaller set of objects. (Using the word "candy" to refer only to lollipops)
What is Underextension
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The basic unit of sound, and combining sounds.
What is Phonology
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Which perspective's approach is favored by MANY developmentalists?
What is The Interactionist Perspective
500
During the ages 6-14 many important strides are made in linguistic competence. Use bigger words and produce longer and more complex sentences. Begin to manipulate language in ways that were previously impossible.
What is Middle Childhood and Adolescence
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The process of acquiring a word after hearing it applied to its referent on a small number of occasions.
What is fast-mapping
500
The structure located in the temporal lobe of the left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex that is responsible for interpreting speech.
What is Wernicke's Area