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CLA (AO1)
Term | Definition |
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Reduplication | Repeating the same word/phoneme e.g. "mama" "dada" |
Phonemic Contraction | When a child's use of phonemes reduces to the useful ones in their native language |
Labelling (CDS) | When a caregiver gives the names of things with simplified vocabulary |
Deletion | When the child removes a phoneme from a word e.g. "blanket" becomes "banket" |
Assimilation | When one consonant phoneme in the word begins to sound like another e.g. "bub" for "bus" |
Overextension | When a child uses a label to refer to more referents than is appropriate e.g. both "cat" and "dog" are "dog" |
Substitution | When a child replaces one phoneme in a word with another e.g. "lion" becomes "yion" |
Phonemic expansion | When a child begins to use lots of phonemes to experiment and see which ones illicit a desired response. |
Recasting | When a caregiver rephrases something they or the child has said, usually as a question. |
Expansion | When the caregiver rephrases something the child has said in a more grammatically sophisticated way. |
Diminutive | Softening the end of a word to make it easier to say e.g. "blanket" becomes "blankie" |
Accommodation | The process of a child learning language |
Labelling | Associating sounds to objects and linking words to things |
Assimilation (Piaget) | hThe process of a child associating new information witj their schema |
Consonant cluster reduction | Reducing more complex consonant structures to simpler phonemes e.g. "think" becomes "fink" |
Underextension | When a child uses a label to refer to less referents than theyshould e.g. saying "milk" to milk in a cup but not in a book |
Echoing | Repeating what the child has said |