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General Stuff about Language
Phonology
Semantics
Early Communication
Grab Bag
100
The part of language that refers to connecting word meaning with their objects or other referent
What is semantics?
100
This is the place of articulation for the consonants /f/ and /v/...
What is labiodental?
100
If children label all vehicles as "car" (including trucks, bikes, motorcycles) this is an example of what pattern?
What is overextension?
100
Name a behavior a caregiver can do to shut down a child's opportunities for communication
What is asking too many questions?
100
A special way of talking that many adults use with babies...
What is child-directed or infant directed speech? (motherse is acceptable).
200
The term for knowledge of the social rules of language?
What is pragmatics?
200
What these consonants have in common.../p/, /b/, /t/, /k/
What is 'they are all stops'?
200
Young children learn new words rapidly, often with only a few exposures. This process is called...
What is fast mapping?
200
OWL is an acronym to remind parents to do what three behaviors? ....
What is Observe Wait and Listen?
200
When considering language theories, the role of what...is important to those who are described as 'empiricists' (nativism vs. empiricism)?
What is role of the environment in language development?
300
What percentage of school age children speak a language other than English at home?
What is 20%?
300
This term is used to explain language-specific restrictions on which sounds can be placed together in a given word. For example, in English the consonants "kd" are not placed together in the spelling of a single word.
What is phonotactic constraints?
300
The category "keys" has many common features, but not a single set of essential features. This is an example of what type of concept...
What is probabilistic concept?
300
Once cognitive skill infants use to make sense of the speech stream they are hearing is to hold the information in memory in order to decipher the speech sounds. This cognitive skill is called...
What is phonological working memory?
300
Most people show lateralization of language to this side of the brain
What is the left side?
400
In class, we reorganized these words (what you do to want) into 3 distinct sentences. The term for the capacity of humans to reorganize language into new patterns is called what?
What is productivity (generativity)?
400
This description of sound development indicates that a child uses varied CV combinations when babbling (e.g. gabadadu)
What is variegated babbling?
400
In this lexical principle, the child assumes a new label will represent something related to a known word, perhaps overlapping, but not the exact known word. For example, the word "window" may overlap with the known word "house" but is likely to be distinct from the original word.
What is the principle of contrast?
400
Peter hands a wind-up toy to his mom because he wants it to move again. What communicative function (act) is he using?
What is requesting?
400
Behaviorists define most expressive vocabulary learning as occurring through this type of condition which is voluntary and non-reflexive.
What is operant conditioning?
500
A major limitation in chimpanzee Viki's ability to learn spoken language?
What is she could not articulate many of the sounds?
500
Child C pronounces the word "cat" as "tat" - this is what kind of phonological pattern?
What is fronting velars?
500
One external factor that influences vocabulary development (several acceptable answer)
What is home environment, language exposure, ostentation, etc.?
500
In Dr. Kuhl's infant perception research, what type of interaction did NOT work for infants to regain the ability to hear Chinese sounds?
What is language exposure by television?
500
This theory emphasizes language development within the functions of daily interactions.
What is social interactionist model?