Theories of Language Development
Getting Ready to Talk & First Words
Two-Word Utterance & Individual and Cultural Differences
Supporting Early Language Development
Other
100
Learning by copying the behavior of another person.
What is Imitation
100
When a child refers to trucks, trains and bikes as "car".
What is Overextension
100
When a child's vocabulary uses more pronouns and social formulas.
What is Expressive Style
100
A form of communication made up of short sentences with distinct pauses between speech segments, exaggerated expression, high-pitched, clear pronunciation, and repetition of new words in a variety of contexts.
What is Child-Directed Speech
100
Coordinating schemes deliberately to solve simple problems.
What is Intentional or Goal-directed behavior.
200
An innate system that contains a set of rules common to all languages.
What is Language Acquisition Device
200
When Infants repeat consonant-vowel combinations in long strings
What is babbling
200
Two-word utterances that leave out smaller and less important words.
What is Telegraphic Speech
200
From birth on, infants prefer to listen to this over other adult talk.
What is CDs.
200
The mental system where permanent knowledge is kept and is unlimited.
What is Long-Term Memory.
300
2. A form of learning in which a spontaneous behavior is followed by a stimulus that changes the probability that the behavior will occur again.
What is Operant Conditioning.
300
When an infant gazes in the same direction that an adult is looking
What is Joint Attention
300
Vocabulary that consist mainly of words that referred to objects.
What is Referential Style
300
This kind of environment builds on young children's natural readiness to acquire language.
What is A rich social environment.
300
When a baby goes to the store and calls every man he/she sees “dad” after recently learning the word.
What is Assimilation
400
1. This assumes that children are “prewired” to master the intricate rules of their language?
What is Nativist
400
When toddlers first learn words and apply them too narrowly.
What is underextension
400
Referential and Expressive styles are also linked to this.
What is Culture
400
The consequence to engaging toddlers in joint make-believe play.
What is Promoting Conversational Dialogue
400
Where sights and sounds are represented directly and stored briefly.
What is Sensory register.
500
This person reasoned that the rules of sentence organization are too complex to be directly taught to or discovered by even a cognitively adept young child.
Who is Noam Chomsky
500
For babbling to develop further, infants must be able to hear human speech.
What is Human Speech
500
On average, children produce their first word around this time.
What is their First Birthday
500
CDS and parent-child conversation create THIS, which expands children's language skills.
What is Zone of Proximal Development.
500
Stumbling onto a new experience caused by the baby's own motor activity.
What is Circular reaction.