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Language in Social Contexts
Language Theories
Variations in Language Development
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This codes 56 grammatical measures and is more useful for older children then MLU (at least to age 5-6).
What is the Index of Productive Syntax (IpSyn)?
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One way to maintain a face- to- face conversation is to use ________. These provide ways to link talk to earlier parts of a conversation. Comprehension depends on making the link.
What are cohesive devices?
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The belief that simply naming a phenomenon also sufficiently explains that phenomenon.
What is the nominalist fallacy?
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An early language acquisition strategy displayed by infants who have good comprehension and pay particular attention to individual words, rather than to phrases.
What is analytic style?
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Contains a noun or any linguistic element functioning as a central element or head.
What is a noun phrase?
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Cohesive device in which a speaker omits part of what was said before.
What is an ellipsis?
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A neuron that fires both when performing an action and when observing the same action performed by another. May have played a critically important role in humankind’s development of, first, a gestural communication system, and subsequently, the emergence of language.
What is a mirror neuron?
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A style of early language acquisition characterized by the child’s learning a number of phrases or unanalyzed expressions. Contrasts with analytic style.
What is rote/holistic style?
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A word that is used to embed a clause inside another clause, such as when a clause is the direct object of a verb, as in the two VPs “hope that the Red Sox are winning the game” and “doubt whether the train will be on time.”
What is a complementizer?
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When children do not want to comply with _______, they often justify and explain in terms of their inability to perform the requested act, lack of willingness ( e. g., “ I don’t want to”), lack of obligation to comply ( e. g., “ I don’t have to”), or their inappropriateness as the person being asked to comply (e.g., "No, you").
What are indirect requests?
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A principle espoused by Piaget that complex cognitive processes arise from simpler functions and that at each stage the organism reorganizes. Development thus proceeds in stages that are qualitatively different from one another.
What is the epigenetic principle?
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Causes of variation in language development
What are Child differences, Input factors, Family SES, Linguistic differences, Bilingual first language acquisition, and Context? (Review "Day 19 Variations in Language Development"
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A widely used as an index of syntactic development in early childhood, determined by the average number of meaningful units in a child's utterances.
What is MLU?
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Verbal and nonverbal behaviors that indicate to the speaker continuing at-tention and satisfactory comprehension or the lack thereof— for example, head nods, quizzical expressions, “ uh- huh,” “ I see,” “ huh?”
What is back-channel feedback?
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One of the simplest ways of explaining changes in behavior is through the connection or association of stimuli in the environment and certain responses of the organism. The process of forming such associations is known as _______.
What is classical conditioning?
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An information- processing term that refers to linear cognitive activity ( e. g., first seeing a letter, then the next one, then reading the word, then understanding it).
What is sequential (serial in your text) processing?
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A theory in linguistics, usually credited to Noam Chomsky, proposing that the ability to learn grammar is hard-wired into the brain.
What is Universal Grammar (UG)?
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Children who have social communication problems without restricted or repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities may be diagnosed as having a ____________ rather than an Autism Spectrum Disorder.
What is a Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder?
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________ focuses on joint attention for early acquisition in typical children ( Tomasello, 2008).
What is usage-based theory?
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An information theory term that refers to activity taking place at many levels at once, rather than sequentially, as in serial processing.
What is parallel processing?