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| A form of communication that represents ideas, events and objects symbolically and meaningfully. |
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| Basically making sentences |
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| Ability to talk about the past/future or objects that are not immediately around. (not in the here and now) |
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Sounds
cat, chat, latter, (the a's sound the same)
also cat & Kelowna (k & c make same sound) |
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Smallest unit of meaning in language
Free or Bound (Fastest = Fast which is free + ist which is bound)
One: Help
Two: Helpful
Three: Unhelpful |
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| Order of words in a sentence to make sense gramatically |
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| Speech Production: Articulators |
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| Mouth & structures that make speech sounds |
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| Speech Production: Co-articulation |
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| Articulators not involved in the sound being made but take up positions to get ready to make the next sound |
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| Language is special and different from other cognitive abilities |
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Written Language:
-Phonetic Reading
-Whole-word Reading
-Phonemic Awareness |
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-Sounding Out
-Reading by sight of words
-Analyze phonemes in ways not required for language comprehension |
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| Language Development: Stages |
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8-10 weeks - cooing (Speech like sounds)
7 months - babbling (mix C&V)
18-20 months - Two-Word Stage (putting two words together; can't form complex sentences; no syntax; limited memory capacity) |
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-Overextensions
-Underextensions
-Overgeneralization |
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-Generalizing the word to a wider variety (ball = all round objects)
-Specifically one object, not to others like it. (neighbours dog = dog; other dogs = not dogs)
-Using known word endings to create verbs in past tense. (I goed, rided instead of I went or rode) |
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Nativism:
-Who proposed it?
-What is it? |
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-Noam Chomsky
-Children are born with innate knowledge of grammatical rules |
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