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First Word and Word Combinations
Pragmatics and Semantics
Development of Language Form
Early School-Age Language
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Mix It Up
100
Animals, food and toys typically develop into this.
What is initial lexicon?
100
Relates to different styles of speaking
What is register?
100
The value of a child’s average vocal productions.
What is mean length of utterance?
100
During the school-age years, children formally apply oral language skills to the written mode in these two tasks.
What are reading and writing?
100
These predominate initial lexicons but have limited explanations.
What is a noun?
200
Early 1-word utterances that convey a holistic communicative behavior to make requests, comments or inquire.
What are holophrases?
200
The linking of entities in a narrative to form a story nucleus.
What is centering?
200
Progressive -ing, regular plural -s, regular past –ed and regular third person share a common bond/category.
What are bound morphemes?
200
Among the elements of language, this element has the most dramatic growth during the school-age years.
What is pragmatics?
200
An uninterrupted stream of language intended to hold a listener's attention and interest.
What is a narrative?
300
This hypothesis suggests that children learn concepts through attributes such as sound, size and shapes.
What is semantic-feature hypothesis?
300
The strategy that allows a child to connect a word to its meaning after one exposure.
What is fast mapping?
300
A preschooler who produces "tar" for "star" is exhibiting a particular type of phonological process.
What is cluster reduction?
300
A school-age child produces "The girl was hit by the boy". This is an example of the elaboration of an earlier learned syntactic structure.
What is a passive sentence?
300
School-age children improve in their understanding and use of metaphors, jokes, idioms, etc. These forms are collectively called?
What is figurative language?
400
This multiword utterance is very systematic with productions that may sound like "more juice", "more Mommy", "more ball".
What is pivot schema?
400
When, before, since, while and after are examples of what type of relational term?
What is temporal (relations)?
400
Concerns the dynamics of the event relative to its completion, repetition, or continuing duration.
What is aspect?
400
Our ability to think about language; to talk about language using language.
What is metalinguistic ability?
400
Preschool children acquire sounds in this position of a word first?
What is the initial position (of a word)?
500
Neighborhood density aids in the development of ______ _______.
What is an auditory map?
500
By the age of four years, children use a variety of registers/styles in conversation. These are the first variations that children exhibit.
What are pitch and loudness?
500
A 31- to 34-month old child may initially overuse this TO BE verb.
What is IS?
500
Rapid vocabulary growth occurs for children during school-age years. Learning comes from...
What are exposure to literature and concepts from course content?
500
These terms are used to direct attention, make spatial contrasts, denote time, or conversational participant.
What are deictic terms?