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Exam 2 Language Development
Chapters 4, 5, and 6
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03/14/2011

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Term
PIAGET
Definition
thought precedes language
(cognitive determinism)
-theory of cognitive deveolopment
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WHORF
Definition
language precedes thought
(linguistic determinism, linguistic relativism)
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linguistic determinism
Definition
aqcuiring language is a prerequisite for reasoning out thoughts or beliefs
(whorf)
Term
cognitive determinism
Definition
understanding of beliefs and knowledge is a prerequisite for language
(Piaget)
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linguistic relativism
Definition
the idea that differences in the way languages encode cultural and cognitive categories affect the way people think, so that speakers of different languages will tend to think and behave differently depending on the language they use.
Term
VYGOTSKY
Definition
-social interaction precedes development
-children play an active role in learning
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CHOMPSKY
Definition
language and thought are independent of each other
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BRUNER
Definition
the organization of language is more important than how many words are in the vocabulary
Term
two basic function
Definition
-organization
-schemata
-adaptation
-assimilation
-accomodation
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birth --> 1 month
Definition
-all behavior is reflexive
-can discriminate phoneme contrasts
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1 --> 4 months
Definition
-lack intentionality (cry because they're hungy not because they know they'll be feed)
-self-imitation (sucking)
Term
4 --> 8 months
Definition
-learns to respond to signals (seeing a bottle means its time to eat)
-imitation (if it's something being done and seen at the present time)
-increased interest in toys and environment(not just mother's face)
-can manipulate objects
Term
8 --> 12 months
Definition
-understand that other people's actions are purposeful
-develop intentionality
-causality
-object permanance
-means to an end
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12 --> 18 months
Definition
-symbols appear as first words
-skilled imitation (of things they can't actually see in front of them)
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18 --> 24 months
Definition
-can represent objects internally (don't need to have a phone to pretend to use one)
-symbolic play
Term
birth --> 6 months
(socially)
Definition
-social smile
-preference for exaggerated language and actions
-eye gaze
-rituals/games
-interest in objects

-decrease in infant handling that leads to
Term
7-12 months
Definition
-intentionality
-increase resonse to requests
-development of communication functions
Term
perlocutionary
Definition
0-8 months
-child lacks intention but the parent thinks they have meaning
Term
illocutionary
Definition
8-12 months
-intentional communication (gestures, PCFs, communicative purpose)
Term
protoimperative
Definition
"give me milk"
Term
protodeclaratives
Definition
"there's a cat"
Term
locutionary
Definition
12+ months
-1st meaningful word
-symbols
Term
preporatory activities
Definition
free infant from physiological state dominance (not hungry)
Term
state-setting activities
Definition
optimizing learning...not distracted, at same level
Term
maintainance of communication
Definition
patting or rhythmic...keeping attention
Term
infantile modification of adult actions
Definition
-baby talk, imitating baby's movements
Term
joint reference
Definition
sharing a focus
-indicating
-deixis
-naming
Term
deixis
Definition
-develop speakers POV
Term
joint action
Definition
-shared behaviors in similar contexts
*games
Term
turn taking
Definition
more conversational...every day novel ideas (not necessarily routines)
-starts with feeding
Term
situational variation
Definition
-using language in as many situations as you can
Term
knowledge structure
Definition
-event-based
-taxonomic
Term
entraiinment
Definition
-rhythmic...using rhythm of speech and movements
Term
event-based knowledge
Definition
knowing what happens based on having gone through an event
Term
taxonomic knowledge
Definition
categorizing new owrds and classes of words and comparing them to categorize them
Term
comprehension precedes production
Definition
first 50 words
Term
probable event strategy
Definition
Term
toddlers (with receptive language)
Definition
-gain a sense of how sounds go together
-use patterns to understand boudaries of words
Term
reference principle
Definition
toddler-receptive
-words don't just go with but actually stand for words
Term
mutual exclusivity assumption
Definition
toddler-receptive
-a referent can't be a cup and a spoon
-has to be separate
Term
extendibility principle
Definition
toddler-receptive
-theres some similarity
-what they know as a cup can extend if another child has a cup because it'll look similar
Term
whole object principle
Definition
toddler-receptive
-label refers to entire entity
*baby...not the baby's arm
Term
categorical assumption
Definition
toddler-receptive
-goes beyond the basic level of and extends something like cup to mean all things that hold liquid
Term
novel-nameless assumption
Definition
toddler-receptive
-enables a child to remember a label for something after only a few exposures
Term
conventionality assumption
Definition
toddler-receptive
-a car is consistently called a car (not a truck or sedan...)
Term
evocative utterances
Definition
toddler-expressive
-naming something
(parent gives feedback)
Term
hypothesis testing
Definition
toddler-expressive
-dog?
Term
interoggative utterances
Definition
toddler-expressive
-whats that? eh?
Term
selective imitation
Definition
toddler-expressive
-partial imitation of utterances
Term
focus operations
Definition
"Daddy throw ball"
--"throw ball"
Term
probable event strategy
Definition
hm...here's a strainer what does this do...maybe it goes on your head
Term
substitution operations
Definition
"Daddy throw ball"
--"throw frisbee"
Term
plausible event strategy
Definition
preschool
-children use knowledge and experiences to figure out what someone's saying or what a sentence means
Term
rote learning strategy
Definition
preschool
-child learns to use certain words in certain contexts and that's how they recognize when they're an appropriate thing to fill in
Term
pay attention to the ends of words
Definition
-children learn suffixes and postposition before prefixes and prepositions
-heavier before more heavy
Term
phonological forms can be sematically modified
Definition
child learns pronunciations gradually...
Term
avoid interruption to the order of words and morphemes
Definition
-ignore stuff like before and after
Term
underlying semantic realtions should be marked overtlty and clearly
Definition
-all words (even and and for) get really emphasized
-will use i will instead of i'll
-
Term
avoid exception
Definition
-tendency to overgeneralize
-have to learn difference between much and many (much sand, many cookies)
Term
grammatical markers should make semantic sense
Definition
"kerry is going he for a week"
not right...
"kerry is coming here"
Term
"motherese"
Definition
-using adult speech but using a baby voice
Term
baby talk
Definition
using not real language and babbling
Term
common types of prompting
Definition
-fill ins
-illicited imitation (can you say cat?)
-questions
Term
expansion
Definition
"bottle"
you want your bottle
-more adult version
Term
extension
Definition
"look a cookie"
"yes it's a chocolate chip cookie"
Term
imitation
Definition
repeating what the child says
Term
responding behaviors
Definition
-extension
-expansion
-imitation
Term
turnabouts
Definition
child says something...adult responds with something that then requires another response
Term
thematic role playing (at 3)
Definition
Child sequences actions a familiar scripts and situations
Term
thematic role playing (at 4)
Definition
Role play others
Stereotypes
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