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100
These type of words are typically omitted when children form multiword utterances in Brown stage 1 (2 word sentences). Hint: it's a broad class of words.
What are closed class words (function words)?
100
Term referring to using language and non-verbal behavior appropriately in interactions with family, peers, teachers, co-workers, and others in multiple contexts? Note: answer is not pragmatics.
What is Communicative Competence?
100

One cause of variation in language development

What are Child differences, Input factors, Family SES, Linguistic differences, Bilingual first language acquisition, and Context?

100

When a writer changes their writing to match the audience, what type of metalinguistic awareness is demonstrated? 


What is pragmatic linguistic awareness?


100
A commonly used measure of sentence length and syntax development used to label early language level. The measure scores the average number of meaningful units in a child's utterances.
What is MLU?
200
This class of words dominate in children's early sentences (Brown stage 1). Examples would be nouns, verbs, adjectives...
What are open-class (content) words?
200
A phenomenon described by Piaget, where a child "assumes that other people see, hear, and feel exactly the same as the child does."
What is egocentrism?
200

In order to understand jokes, riddles, puns, what type of semantic knowledge is necessary? 

Multiple meanings of words or linguistic ambiguity

200

What type of metalinguistic awareness is shown when a child corrects grammatical errors in a sentence?

What is syntactic metalinguistic awareness?

200

When evaluating a language sample, this measure can be used to assess a child's use of grammatical tenses.  Twenty-five points indicates a perfect score.


What is tense productivity?

300
What is a verb in a sentence that does not require an object? e.g. She skipped.
What is an Intransitive verb?
300
A test used in developmental psychology to measure a child's social cognitive ability to identify that another person may not know the same information as the child.
What is False Belief test?
300

This element of story grammar describes where the story takes place.

What is setting?

300

These words are what type of verbs?

- think, decide, remember, assume

What are mental state verbs?

300
This grammatical element contains a noun or any linguistic element functioning as a central element or head.
What is a noun phrase?
400
What is a verb that requires an object in the specific sentence? e.g. She grabbed the handle.
What is a transitive verb?
400
The meaning of referential communication.
What is ...When the communicator takes what the listener needs to know into account?
400
Related to communicative competence, these kind of verbal and nonverbal feedback devices let the speaker know that the listener is attending, comprehending, or confused. For example, head nods, quizzical expressions, “ uh- huh,” “ I see,” “ huh?”
What is back-channel feedback?
400

This term refers to a character's response to an event (emotion or feeling).

What is reaction to the initiating event or internal response?

400

What type of expository discourse structure is this?

Jodi outlined instructions for how to parallel park a car.  

What is procedural?

500
Another term for a linking verb? (e.g. He is tired. She became ill. etc.)
What is a copula?
500
These are 4 key parts of Grice’s conversational maxims
What are quantity, quality, relation, and manner? (see lecture: "Language in social context")
500
With reference to the DSM V, 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?
500
An acronym used to describe level of language skill in second language learners indicating mastery of language skills needed to interact in social situations, for example, when speaking to a friend on the telephone.
What are Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)?
500
Often used in reference to second language acquisition, this acronym refers to a language user's ability to use highly abstract, decontextualized communication that takes place in the classroom, especially in the later elementary grades.
What is the cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP)?