The rules of language governing the internal organization of words.
What is morphology?
100
He proposed that language develops through reinforcement.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
100
You look at me, you look at an object, then back to me. This is a foundation for language learning.
What is joint attention?
100
These were developed after following three children and documenting the complexity of their speech.
What are Brown's Morphemes?
100
Babababababa
What is reduplicated babbling?
200
The smallest unit of sound that can signal a difference in meaning.
What is a phoneme?
200
An SLP provides appropriate levels of support to their client who is almost able to complete a task but still requires assistant. This strategy stems from what concept in language theory?
What is the zone of proximal development?
200
A child holding their arms up is demonstrating this form of communication.
What is intentional communication?
200
Nonsense words were used to assess children's acquisition of morphemes.
What is the Wug Test?
200
A child says "bani" every time their mother gives them a banana. In semantics this has a specific term.
What is a protoword.
300
This calculation gives you information about the complexity of a child's utterances.
What is MLU?
300
The innate mechanism that allows children to learn language according to linguistic theorists.
What is the LAD (Language Acquisition Device)?
300
The age children typically begin to combine words.
What is 24 months?
300
Studies of children who have received little social interaction have results that support this theory of language development.
What is Social Interactionist by Lev Vygotsky?
300
Because of this, when I say "summer" you say: "beach, warm, break..."
What is a semantic network?
400
You can begin to analyze this component of language form after children begin to combine words.
What is syntax?
400
This model of language development compares humans to computers.
What is the competition model?
400
One of the first morphemes children develop.
What is present progressive -ing? Plural -s? Possessive -s?
400
This bird demonstrated that language is a species specific phenomenon.
Who is Alex the parent?
400
A child learnings the word flamingo after you find a sticker on the ground that looks like a flamingo and put it on their shirt saying "A flamingo for your shirt!"
What is incidental learning? Fast mapping?
500
The word unstoppable has three of these.
What are morphemes?
500
According to Vygtosky, this manner of speaking to children was particularly important.
What is child direct speech?
500
Your client is almost 4 and says "She's my friend." She is using a later developing grammatical morpheme.
What is contractible copula?
500
In studies, young children will often not look for objects after they've been hidden. They have yet to acquire this necessary concept.
What is object permanence?
500
The frequently used words in a persons vocabulary.