1. children choose word from 4 basic constructions (subject, verb. object, adverbial)options allow child to build phrase-like utterances
2. pivot –open grammar—2 categories of words used alone or in combination
3. rich interpretations—communicative context must be taken into account
4. semantic relations analysis—emphasizes function of utterance
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Mean Length of Utterance
What is MLU?
100
communicative context must be taken into account
What are rich interpretations
200
perceptual or functional features in common (mama, doggie, wawa) — agents and objects
What is Substantive words
200
Morpheme
What is the smallest unit of meaning?
200
semantic relations analysis
What is each word is composed of bits of meaning
and each word has its own unique collection of features
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Imitation
Expansion
Extension
Buildups and breakdowns
Recast sentences
Protodeclaratives
Protoimperatives
Social interactions
Presuppositions
Primitive speech acts
What is Pragmatic Development?
300
attaching meaning to words
What is vocabulary development
300
Utterance
What is a sentence or shorter unit separated by a pause, pitch drop or other indication of a new thought
300
occur only as suffixes and change the meaning of the word by making grammatical adjustments for plural, possessive and verb tense
What is inflectional?
300
Imitation
Expansion
Extension
Buildups and breakdowns
Recast sentences
What is Role of Caregiver
400
refer to actions or states of being that can affect a variety of categories (allgone, more, stop, bye-bye)
What is Relational words
400
Parts of language
What is morphology concerned with?
400
added to the front or back of free morphemes (prefixes or suffixes) these change the class or category of a word (slow + ly = slowly; word category changes from adjective to adverb)
What is derivational?
400
Order of Word Acquisition
What is
Present progressive
Prepositions
Plurals
Past irregular
Possessive
Uncontractible copula
Articles
Past regular
Third Person Regular
Third Person irregular
Uncontractible auxillary
Contractible copula
Contractible auxillary
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Word Development Stages and the corresponding ages
What is
Early Stage I (MLU: 1-1.5; Age: 12-22 months)
Late Stage I (MLU: 1.5-2.0; Age 22-26 months)
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number of morphemes in:
my doggie eated its foods
What is 9
500
child develops prototypes to represent a basic concept
child bases word meaning on specific models
meaning develops as child refines prototypes
What is prototype hypothesis?
500
STAGE MLU APPROX. AGE
I 1.0 - 2.0 12 – 26 months
II 2.0 - 2.5 27 – 30 months
III 2.5 - 3.0 31 – 34 months
IV 3.0 - 3.75 35 – 40 months
V 3.75 - 4.5 41 – 46 months
V+ 4.5 + 47+ months