Child Language Key Terms 0.0 / 5 ? English LanguageChild language acquisitionASAQA Created by: EmilyCreated on: 31-03-14 20:14 Pre-verbal Before words 1 of 42 Vegetative Reflexive crying noises 2 of 42 Cooing Open-mouthed vowel sounds 3 of 42 Babbling Repeated consonant-vowel sounds and combinations of these 4 of 42 Proto-word Babbling sounds that seem to match actual word sounds 5 of 42 Utterance A stretch or continuous unit of speech 6 of 42 Substitution Substituting one sound for an easier one 7 of 42 Mean length of utterance (MLU) Average number of words in each utterance 8 of 42 Stop Where air flow is stopped to create a sound 9 of 42 CDS Child directed speech 10 of 42 Monosyllabic A word or utterance consisting of one syllable 11 of 42 Holophrastic One word stage- utterance of one word 12 of 42 Reduplicated monosyllable Repeated use of monosyllable sound e.g. lalala 13 of 42 Articulation How sounds are formed 14 of 42 Phonology The characteristic pronunciations of a child 15 of 42 Grammar How words are combined/constructed 16 of 42 Vocabulary/lexis Words and their meaning 17 of 42 Pragmatics Rules for holding a conversation 18 of 42 Inflections Changes to words such as 'S' for plurals and 'ed' for past tense 19 of 42 Content words Lexical words 20 of 42 Function words Grammatical words 21 of 42 Reformulating Care giver repeats what the child says in a more standard form 22 of 42 Deletion Child omits a sound from a word (aka clipped pronunciaton) 23 of 42 Consonant cluster simplification Consonant clusters made simpler e.g. frog ---> fog 24 of 42 Virtuous error When children incorrectly apply an accurate rule e.g. to put --> putted 25 of 42 Over-generalisation Over-application of a grammatical rule 26 of 42 Morphemes The smallest unit of grammatical meaning in words 27 of 42 Addition Form of early mistake: adding an extra vowel to make a CVCV structure 28 of 42 Behaviourists Theorists who believe language is acquired through imitation and reinforcement 29 of 42 Bound morpheme A morpheme that can only have meaning when attached to a free morpheme e.g. 'ing' 30 of 42 Cognitive theorists Believe language acquisition is part of the wider development of understanding 31 of 42 Fricative Sound created by slow, controlled release of air through mouth, causing friction 32 of 42 Grapheme Smallest functional unit in a writing system 33 of 42 Hypernym Category into which other words fit e.g. animal 34 of 42 Hyponym A word within the hypernym category 35 of 42 Innate Inborn, natural 36 of 42 Nativist theorists Theorists who believe humans have an inbuilt capacity to acquire language 37 of 42 Segment To break down streams of speech into understandable units of meaning 38 of 42 Social interactionists Theorists who believe that child interaction is developed through close interactions with carers 39 of 42 Underextend Contract the meaning of a word 40 of 42 Overextend Stretch the meaning of a word 41 of 42 Universal grammar The theory that all languages share a similar grammatical structure under the surface 42 of 42
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