Chapter 1
This governs language use for social purposes
What is Pragmatics
Words that differ by only one phoneme (low and row)
What is Minimal Pairs
The number of cranial nerves closely involved with speech and language
What is 7
What is Nurture-inspired theory
This measures syntax that is also used in a language sample
What is Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)
The rules of a language governing the sounds that make syllables and words
What is phonology?
The grammatical morphemes that is first occurring around age 2 years
What is Progressive –ing
The area of the brain that processes Pragmatics
What is primarily Frontal lobes
The theory that states behaviors that are reinforced become strengthened, and behaviors that are punished become suppressed
What is Behaviorist theory
Two cues used by infants in word segmentation
What is prosodic cues and phonotactic cues
This is associated with language growth in the first few years of life
What is caregiver responsiveness
The age that phonological knowledge and production allow for intelligible speech
What is 3-4 years old
Intact processing of nonword auditory stimuli but cannot understand spoken words
What is word deafness
This theory holds that Infants use sensitivity to prosody to make inferences about language
What is Prosodic Bootstrapping
The building blocks of cognition; internalized representations of the organizational structures of various events. This is also a key aspect to conversational skills development
What is Schema
The smallest unit of language that carries meaning
What is a Morpheme
This is an important bridge between language and reading and allows children to readily switch between dialects
What is Phonological awareness
Type of scientists who study the structures and functions of the nervous system that relate to language
What is a Neurolinguists
This theory generally hold that much knowledge is innate and genetically transmitted rather than learned by experience
What is Nature-inspired theory
Describes instances in which infants and caregivers focus attention on a mutual object
What is Joint Attention
The 3 Major Domains of Language
What is Form, Content and Use
Stylistic variations in language that occur in different situational contexts
What is Register
This circulates in the subarachnoid space
What is cerebrospinal fluid (C S F)
The process through which teachers, clinicians and other adults provide children, adolescents and adults with an enhanced language learning environment
What is Enrichment
With regard to the human brain, a time frame of development during which a particular aspect of neuroanatomy that underlies a given sensory or motoric capacity undergoes growth or change
What is Sensitive Period