Speech and Language Development

Study cards for a language development class. Dealing with expressive and receptive development.

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What is the chronology of phoneme and supra-segmental development?
Phonemes are understood by children first, supra-segmental are next ( ie: pause, tone, melody).
Describe early receptive semantic development
1 month- can differentiate between voewls and consonants


2 months- can tell voice difference


8 months- sentece understanding


12 months- can respond w/o relying on intonation
1) porper names 2) body parts 3) food related 4) names of toys 5) ritualized words
At what age does syntactic development become important for children's understanding? Until that age, what does the child rely on?
30 months, context
How do children learn language?
Play
Imitation
real conversations with adults
What arethe magical numbers?
The magical number is 50. A child must understand 50 words before speaking one word. They must speak 50 differnt one words before 2 word utterances.
What is the age most kids develop expressive langauge?
1 year
What is halophrastic speech? What do supporters and opposers think?
Kids use 1 word utterances to convey a full sentence. peple who oppose this think the adult interprets what the kid says and includes the syntactic information. People who support this think that the syntactic information comes from the child.
What did Nelson's study tell us? How do children learn best?
Nelsons study tells us that kids learn best by using all words, not just nominals. You need to teach more than just nouns,all types of words ( verbs, modifiers, social words, etc.) are important.
What does piggybacking mean?
Words stacked together in an utterance.
What are the 7 semantic relations?
Nomination
action
recurrance
negation
attribute
agent
non-existant
posession
At what age do children enter the 2 word stage?
2 years old
What are Brown's 12 morphemes?
Present progressive
in
on
plural s
past irregular verb tense
posessive s
uncontractable copula "be"
articles A and THE
past regular verb tense
3rd person singular regular
3rd person irregular
contactable aux. "be"
contactable copula
contractable aux.
MLU
MLR
# of morphemes/ # of utterances
# of words/ # of utterances
What is the stress heirarchy? What gets the most stress?
New Info
Locative Words
Posessives
Noun Objects
Actions
Pronouns Objects
Agent
What is vertical construction?
2 word utterances strung together as the same utterance.