Child Language Acquisition Brief Notes
- Created by: henna98
- Created on: 08-06-18 12:02
Child language revision:
Main stages of language development
Holophrastic – one-word utterances
Two – words: two-word combinations
Telegraphic – three or more words combines
Post – telegraphic – more grammatically complex combined
Cursive handwriting- handwriting is joined in rounded and flowing strokes
· Convergence- a process of linguistic change in which people adjust their dialect, accent or speech style to others
· Orthography- the study of the use of letters and the rules of spelling in a language
· Emergent writing- children’s early scribble
· Ascender- where a portion of the letter goes above the usual height for letters
· Descender- where a part of a letter goes below the baseline of a font
· Diagraph – a graphic unit in which two symbols combine to produce a single sound
· Homophone- a lexical item that has the same pronunciation as another but a different meaning/ spelling
· Imperatives- grammatical mood that forms commands or requests
· Negation- the opposite of something
· Holophrases – one word to indicate greater meaning ‘drink’ could mean I want drink
· Pitch: degree of highness or lowness of tone
· Deletion- dropping unstressed syllables, consonants, clusters
· Substitution- substituting easier phonemes for more difficult ones
· Reduplication- different phonemes are pronounced in the same way
· Filler/ filler pause : ‘mm’
· Backchannel behaviour: noise the listener makes in the background as response to what speaker is saying ‘yeah’, ‘mm’
· Marker of sympathetic circularity: function of checking if the person is still with you: ‘don’t you know’
· Tag questions: ‘didn’t she?’, ‘aren’t you?’
· Discourse markers: particular verbs and phrases used to mark boundaries in conversation between one topic and the next ‘ANYWAY, let’s wait for Henna to ring up’
· Interrogative and imperative: interrogatives are usually followed by a question ‘ can you help me with this’, imperatives uses the verb in a simple form, or they add do or don’t , ‘ don’t touch that’
· Ellipsis: speaker leaves out some parts as they think the person already knows what they mean ‘are you…’
· Modal expressions: words or phrases that indicate the attitude of the speaker towards the situation they’re describing ‘ I suppose it must be sort of hard or whatever’
· Semantic field: other words related by meaning , satan, god
· Jargon: if you’re a doctor, x-ray, medicine
· Declarative sentences: following structure, often used to make statements about facts , ‘glass drink bottles are prohibited’
· Transactional: language used to pass on information, ‘it’s miserable weather in June’ , used as ice breaker instead of information to pass on
· Phatic talk: referring to the social, rather than the message, aspect of communication
· First/ second person pronoun: I/Me, you
· Active voice: ‘you should pay for it’
· Passive: it should be…
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