Chapter 1:
Language Development
Language Development
What are morphemes?
the smallest units of language that carry meaning
What is phonological awareness?
the ability to attend to individual sound units
The human nervous system is divided into what two systems?
The central nervous system (CNS)
The peripheral nervous system (PNS)
Who was the theorist that popularized the notion of behaviorism, according to which all learning is the result of operant condition?
B.F. Skinner
What are phonemes?
the smallest unit of sound that can signal a difference in meaning
Name one measure of phonological awareness
Rhyming
Initial sound identification
Syllable counting
Phoneme deletion
Phoneme segmentation
________ refers to the bottom of the brain.
Ventral
What is syntactic bootstrapping?
children deduce grammatical structures by using word meanings they acquire from observing events around them
What is pragmatic language?
pertains to the rules governing language use for social purposes
How many morphemes are in the word "creative"?
2
The site where two neurons meet one another
synapse
The difference between the child's current developmental level and their level of potential development is called...
What are the three domains of language?
form, content, use
What is syntactic development?
the rules of language that govern how words are organized into sentence
The CNS consists of....
The brain and the spinal cord
A theory that posits children learn language only to use it socially and drive their social interactions
usage-based theory
What does content refer to when referencing the three domains of language?
the meaning of language (bonus points if you said semantics)
Becoming competent social communicators involved attending to extralinguistic cues. Name an extralinguistic cue.
eye gaze
facial expressions
tone of voice
proximity
vocal amplitude
How many cranial nerves are associated with speech and language?
Seven
A child hears past-tense verbs more frequently, therefore they use past-tense verbs where they don't belong (e.g., I sitted on the chair). This child is demonstrating the concept of _____________.
overgeneralization