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LEXICON AND SEMANTICS
MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX
ATYPICAL DEVELOPMENT
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
MYSTERY
100
Words referring to concrete objects and abstract subjects. Examples would be nouns and verbs.
What is open-class words (or content words)
100
The smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning.
What is a morpheme
100
Echolalia Late onset of language Pronoun reversal
What are some language abnormalities associated with autism?
100
When a bilingual speaker mixes two languages to bridge lexical gaps.
What is code mixing
100
Two types of morphemes that a) can stand alone b) must be attached to another morpheme
What are free morphemes and bound morphemes
200
Grammatical words that add meaning to content words. Examples are determiners and pronouns.
What is closed class words (or function words)
200
Builds a different form of the same word (e.g.. s , ing)
What is an inflectional morpheme
200
The automatic repetition of vocalizations made by another person. A characteristic of autism.
What is echolalia
200
When the learner uses knowledge of L1 to formulate speech/writing in L2 resulting in error
What is an interlingual transfer error
200
Builds a new word from the stem, often changing the word class. (e.g., -ful, un-, -ness)
What is a derivational morpheme
300
A word and all words related to it through various hierarchies of meaning.
What is a semantic network
300
A method of measuring syntactic growth appropriate until approximately the age of 3-4. Increases over time.
What is an MLU
300
Delayed or deviant language development in a child who exhibits no obvious cognitive, neurological, or social impairment
What is a specific language impairment.
300
Errors in L2 that are similar to errors made in the development of L1. Example: overgeneralization of "ed"
What is a developmental error
300
When a child learns two languages at once and becomes bilingual in both
What is additive bilingualism
400
Within the category of semantic features, conditions that must be met.
What is classical concepts
400
The omission of function words leading researchers to believe that content words are learned first.
What is telegraphic speech
400
Typically found in children with autism's language, referring to themselves as others have spoken to them "What are you doing?" "You're here"
What is pronoun reversal
400
When a child is exposed to two languages from birth or shortly thereafter
What is a simultaneous bilingual speaker
400
Using sentence structure, inflectional morphology, and sentence frame to figure out meaning.
What is syntactic bootstrapping
500
Under the category of semantic knowledge, conditions that are most likely met but not definitely.
What is probablistic concepts
500
A chunk of morphemes only counted as 1 in an MLU
What is a frozen form
500
Three reasons ASL development is similar to typical language development
What are manual babbling, over regularizations, emergence of words (also, grammatical form)
500
When a child's first language is lost because of lack of exposure and the second language becomes the primary language.
What is subtractive bilingualism
500
Assumptions individuals hold about the state of knowledge of others. Children must develop ______ in order to speak to others at an appropriate level.
What is Theory of Mind