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Acquisition of Language
Final Exam
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Communication
Undergraduate 2
05/15/2010

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Pre-school: Speech acts
Definition
More Intent:
- requesting information
- warning
- teasing
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Pre-school: Discourse: Turn Taking
Definition
- increase in turn taking
- when interrupt wait for pause in speakers speech
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Pre-school: Discourse: Topic Maintenance
Definition
3 and under- 2 turns per topic
5 yrs: 5 turns per topic, learning how to converse, more to talk about
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Pre-school: Discourse: Conversation Repairs
Definition
fix convo by repeating what one says, requesting clarification, looking confused
*** also will increase volume, or change sentence
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Pre-school: Discourse: Presupposition
Definition
- Make assumptions of what listener knows based on their knowledge and status
- assume too much of too little
- putting themselves in someone else's shoes
- understanding words can hurt others
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Krauss and Glucksberg: Barrier Paradine
Definition
- with boundary between adult and child, child 4 and under could not describe how they arranged the blocks to the adult effectively
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School-aged: Semantics: syntagmatic/paradigmatic shift
Definition
- change in way children store words
- by association
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School-aged: Semantics: definitions
Definition
superordinate category- animal
attributes (functional and perceptual)- furry, mean
Term
Definitions 5 stages
Definition
1. empty description- "I have a cat"
2. agent/action- "Cat meows"
3. concrete explan. of experience- "It scratches me"
4. Social/shared info- "You can play with it, it's soft"
5. Dictionary def- "A cat is an animal"
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School-aged Semantics: Kinship
Definition
-Don't understand until 10 years
-in preschool don't understand that relationship is reciprocal- if I'm your brother your my sister
Term
come/go, bring/take
Definition
-come is acquired before go, and bring is acquired before take
-because come and bring indicate motion towards the speaker
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metaphor
Definition
"the giraffe was a flag pole living at the zoo"
Term
simile
Definition
"the giraffe was like a flag pole living at the zoo"
Term
cognitive pre-requisite view of figurative language
Definition
-they don't understand the figurative language until later
-cognitive development needed first in order to understand language
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language experience view of figurative language
Definition
-exposure to language more relevant than cognitive development
Term
sounding
Definition
-aggressive street game where kids exchange insults
-exposure theory
Term
transparent idioms
Definition
-can visualize it
-"slap in the face"
Term
opaque idioms
Definition
-"kick the bucket", "shoot the breeze"
-abstract concepts
Term
Nippold
Definition
-put idioms in a context and gave multiple choice options
-better results than just asking for the explanation of an idiom
Term
proverbs
Definition
-preaching quality
-"Don't count your chickens before they hatch"
-begins in early adulthood
-exposure HUGE
-syntax, vocab, abstract concept
Term
Humor (S.A.)
Definition
-Need cog and linguistic skills, world knowledge, academic acheivement
-Important developmentally because of peer acceptance (early on like slapstick, later ambiguity)
Term
Schultz and Horibe
Definition
-order of acquisition is phonological surface structure, then lexical deep struture
-don't have it at 10 do have it at 12
Term
School-aged pragmatics: speech acts
Definition
-indirect
-hinting
-lying
-sarcasm
Term
Demorest Et Al
Definition
-sarcastic story
-asked kids what remark meant and why speaker said it
-6yrs neither, 8 a not b, 11 both
Term
School-aged Pragmatics: Persuasion and Negotiation
Definition
Persuasion- argumentation, child stops whinging and begging and starts convincing
Negotiation- compromise, resolve conflicts, adolescence
Term
Interrupting- M vs F
Definition
- males do it more often, to make a statement
- females do it to ask questions
- La France thinks b/c power
- occurs 3.5-4.5 yrs
Term
Minimal response- M vs F
Definition
shows disinterest
- males do it at the end of a partners turn and a pause
- females do it between speakers breath
- do not see until adolescence
Term
School-aged narrative discourse
Definition
-one person communication
-structure, planned discourse
-important that kids recognize elements: plot, setting... necessary for academic success
Term
Stein and Glenn: Model for story grammar
Definition
story split into setting and episode structure
-setting- characters, time, place
-E.S.-first event, internal response, plan of actions, attempt, consequence, reaction, moral
Term
Applebee's stages: Heap
Definition
1st
-collection of unrelated elements- 2yrs
Term
Applebees stages: Sequences
Definition
2nd
-collection of story elements that have central topic- 2-3yrs
Term
Applebee's stages: Primitive Narrative
Definition
3
-3-4YRS
Term
Applebee's stages: unfocused chains
Definition
4
-elements of story connected to each other but no central theme- 4-4.5 yrs
Term
Applebee's Stages: Focused chains
Definition
5
-center theme and chaining but missing 1 element- 5yrs
Term
Applebee's stages: Complete Narrative
Definition
6
-centering and chaining-5-7yrs
Term
Applebee's stages: Multiple episodes
Definition
-7
-11-12yrs
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