Chapter 4 - Learning (Chapter)

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Language Comprehesion
 
Refers to understanding what others say (or sign or write)
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Language production
 
Refers to actually speaking to others
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Critical/Sensitive Period
 
The period in which children should be exposed to language and should have developed language....
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Phonology
 
The structure of sounds that can be used to produce worsds in a language.
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Phonemes
 
The basic building blocks of speech sounds
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How many phonemes do humans use cross-culturally
 
120
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What are the two factors that humans depend on to create phonemes?
 
a. being able to hear others say the phonemes b. listening to others use language.
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Are humans prewired to be able to distinguish words from other sounds?
 
Yes
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Syntax
 
The rules for combining different types of words into meaningful phrases and sentences.
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Holographic Speech
 
One word sentences that may refer to many different ideas. For example, "Juice" meaning "I...
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Telegraphic Speech
 
Simple 2 or 3 word sentences with only main words. For example, "Go Sleep" or "give Juice"
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Overregularization Errors
 
Errors in which newly learned rules are misapplied. For example, "runned", "goed," or "foots".
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Overextension Errors
 
Errors in which a word is used to refer to all similar objects. For example, child says "dog"...
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Underextension
 
Use word only to refer to specifc object. For example, toy car is only "car"
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Semantics
 
 the meaning of words, phrases or sentences.
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Morphemes
 
Smallest units of meaning in a language
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Free morphemes
 
morphemes that can stand alone (cat, go, pencil, baby)
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Bound morphemes
 
morphemes that cannot stand alone and change the meaning of free morphemes (-ed, -s, un-)
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Fast Mapping
 
The process of rapidly learning a new word simply from the contrastive use of a familiar and...
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The whole-object assumption
 
leads children to expect a novel word to refer to a whole object, not a part
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Mutual Exculsivity Assumption (aka novel name - nameless category principle)
 
leads children to expects that a given entity will have only one name
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Pragmatic Cues
 
aspects of the social context used for word learning.
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Pragmatic cues include:
 
the adult's focus of attention and intentionality.
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linguistic context
 
novel words appear to help infer their meaning.
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sytactic bootstrapping
 
a strategy in which children use the grammatical structure of whole sentences to figure out...
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Pragmatics
 
the way that language conveys meaning indirectly, by implying rather than directly stating...
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Example of Pragmatics
 
If you get a call asking "Is your Mom home?" What is Implied?
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Infant-Directed Speech
 
the distinctinve mode of speech that adults adopt when talking to babies and very young children.
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Characteristics of Infant-Directed Speech
 
A warm affectionate tone, high pitched "cued", exaggerated intonation, exaggerated facial expressions,...
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0-3 months (LD)
 
a. Aware of and have preference for human sounds at birth
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4-6 months (LD)
 
a. babbling develops      i. starts with mostly vowels, few consonants     ii....
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0-2 months (LD)
 
cries, grunts
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2 months (LD)
 
cooing (vowel sounds) - learn to attract attention with sounds
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5 months (LD)
 
infants attend to their own name out of background conversations
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6 months (LD)
 
babbling uses all 120+ phonemes
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At what period do deaf children BEGIN to babble?
 
4-6 months
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At what age do deaf children babbling begin to drop out?
 
12 months
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6-7 months
 
infants begin producing drawn out vowel sounds
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7-9 months
 
continued babbling     i. babbling begins to take on phonemes found in language...
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7-8 months (LD)
 
infants readily learn to recognize new words.    i. In general, infants are...
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When do adults believe the child babbling represents words?
 
7-9 months
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When does word recognition begin
 
7-9 months
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When do infants first recognize, then comprehend them, then begin to produce some of the words...
 
7-9 months
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10 months (LD)
 
children in the U.S. have comprehension vocabularies of about 11-100 words 
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12 to 13 months (LD)
 
first words appear; first words are labels for familiar objects
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10-14 months (LD)
 
still a lot of babbling
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Vocables
 
reserving sounds for particular situations (10-14 months)
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When is pronunciation still very difficult for children?  For example, children will say...
 
10-14 months
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On average, when do children say their first words?
 
12-13 months
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On average, when do children experience a spurt in their vocabulary?
 
19 months
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On average, when do children begin to produce simple sentences?
 
24 months
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18 months (LD)
 
1. vocab up to 20-50 words; Occ. 2 or 3 sentence words.2. understand communication for getting...
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24 months (LD)
 
1. vocab from 50-400 words2. babbling is rare3. words not used very accurately--> misuse...
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2 years to 6 years (LD)
 
Big gains in vocabulary--> 2-year-olds have about 300 words, by 6.5 years vocabulary may...

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