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Language Terms
Key terms and concepts for the CSET
Term | Definition |
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Child-directed speech or motherese | Adult modify their speech to make it esier for children to learn language, including modifying sentences structure, repeating key words, and focusing on present objects or persons. |
Fast mapping | A process where by young children are able to use context to arrive ast a quick gues of a word's meaning. Nouns (objects) are easier to fast map than vers (actions). |
Habituation | Infants, and children repeat sound that are reinforced. Children can distinguish abstract rules for sentences structures. |
Holophrastic speech | A single word that expresses complete thought. These include symbolic gestures, where the child shows an understanding that symbols (words) reprsent a specific object, desire, or event, or representational gestures whcich involve geturin to show what the |
Over-regularization | In early childhood, children begin to use past tensew and plurals in speech. About this time , they also begin to add regular forms on irregular nouns, saying "foot" instead of"feet". |
Private speech | Talking out loud to oneself with no communicate with others. This helps children to integrate language and thought. |
Telegraphic speech | Simplified speech or an early form of speech. This is usually a two-word sentence spoken by a 2 year-old. First sentences consist of just enough words to get the meaning across. |