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Exam #1 Review Terms

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Action relational words   Semantic category; stands for words that define the manner in which actions are related through movement  
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Adult based vocabulary   Required in defining TFW; Vocabulary typically used/produced by an adult  
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Analogical overextension   A word for one object that is extended to another object which is not in same clear category but still has similar characteristic (physical or functional) Class example: Calling soft scarf kitty (feels like a cat)  
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Answering   Speech act where a child typically answers prompted question (yes, no, that)  
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Babbling   Long strings of sounds that children begin to produce around 4 months of age  
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Basic level vocabulary   Often times monosyllabic words that adults use to model language to their child; most functional and common; Class example: dog  
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Birth order   Parent report data: does not have an effect (significant one) on the language acquisition/development  
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Bound morpheme   Unit of meaning that can not stand alone; must be attached to a free morpheme; typically modifies that free morpheme; generally includes grammatical tags that are derivational (-ly, -er, -ment) or inflectional (-ed, -s)  
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Calling   Speech act where a child calls for someone/something (Mommy, hey)  
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Categorical extension   A word for one member of a clear category is extended to other members of that category; Class example: child uses apple in order to name fruit (any type)  
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Classical conditioning   (Association Theory) A learning process that consists of child being exposed to a stimulus (sees object), hears the word and associates the two together (Pavlov); the early acquisition of non-nominals indicates that this process is not adequate  
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Closed class words   Functor words; grammatical words that can not be made up and are often times relational (auxiliary verbs, conjunctions, prepositions, articles, pronouns)  
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Cognition   Higher level thinking; learning; processes associated with memory, attention etc  
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Combinatorial speech   Combination of both rote and generative processes; class example: "Me sees tubbiesontv"  
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Comunicative Intention   Purpose of utterance; i.e. to gain information, to give information, to ask for permission; humans have the intentionality to communicate with one another  
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Compound noun   Noun containing two nouns  
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Comprehension   Comprehension precedes production of language  
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Decontextualization   The meaning of a word generalizes; At first child only uses certain word within a particular context; eventually the word becomes more generalized  
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Disappearance words   Apparent upon realization of object permanence….when an object “disappears” children acquire “disappearance” words (all gone)  
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Disconnection (mismatch)   May be TFW, but the child refers to the object as something different than the adult; occurs infrequently  
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Faculty of mind   Not related to the development in other domains (cognition, memory, attention); Indicates that humans are born to talk  
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Functor word   Closed class words; grammatical  
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Gender   On average, girls have a better pronunciation of first words. However, in the distribution, boys are at more extreme ends of the spectrum (very high, very low)  
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General nominal   General noun: objects, substances, animals & people, letters & numbers, abstractions, pronouns (ball, milk, girl, birthday, he, that)  
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Generative   Children learn “formula” or “rule” of grammar & apply it to their situation Example: Subject-verb-object, noun + plural  
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Grammar   System of rules or underlying principles that describe the five aspects of language (syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, pragmatics  
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Greetings   Words used in greetings; (hi, bye-bye, thank you)  
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Holophrastic speech   Child uses single word utterances to express larger meanings; adults are able to gloss meaning to understand the whole phrase (“cookie”→ “I’d like a cookie.)  
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Idiosyncratic speech   Words that are not adult based; words that are often times invented by the child; has meaning to the child  
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Inference (type of learning)   Child infers word meaning from experiences; children map meanings from exposures to relevant evidence; able to draw conclusions from small amount of information & apply to life  
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Inflection   Modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, grammatical mood, grammatical voice, aspect, person, gender, number etc  
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Intonation   Varies depending on the speech act  
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Joint reference   Process of differentiating or noting a particular object, action, or event for the purpose of communication; serves as infant’s “Rosetta Stone” for decoding language  
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Labeling   Speech Act that involves naming things; emerges early; vocabulary knowledge  
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Means-end ability   Tool use; two actions in sequence, the first leads to the enabling of the second  
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Modifier   Modifies verb, noun; often times adjectives, attributes, states, locatives, possessives (big, red, pretty, hot, allgone, outside, there, mine)  
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Morpheme   Smallest unit of meaning; indivisible (dog) without violating the meaning or producing meaningless units (do, g). There are two types of morphemes, free and bound.  
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Morphology   Aspect of language concerned with rules governing change in meaning at the intraword level; word structure  
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Motherese   Style of talking used most often by white middle-class American mothers when addressing their 18- 24 month-old toddlers  
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Mutual gaze   Eye contact with a communication partner; used to signal intensified attention  
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New/old information   Principle that describes children's use of words to add meaning to a situation...in other words, they will use words to comment on what has changed (what is new) in the environment rather than describing/labelling others or conditions that are static  
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Nominal   Noun; specific and general nominal  
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Noun   object  
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Object permanence   Representation of unseen objects; children learn that objects are permanent  
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Overextension   Process in which a child applies a word’s meaning to more exemplars than an adult would. The child’s definition is too broad and is thus beyond acceptable adult usage (categorical, analogical, statements)  
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Overgeneralization   Children apply rules to every case; do not pick up the grammatical exceptions (goodest, runned); indicates intelligent thinking, but wrong  
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Overlap   Combines overextenstions with under extensions (Collies-->underextenstion + long-haired cats --> overextension)  
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Past tense   Verb is conjugated to display an event that occurred in the past  
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Personal-social word   Words that are expressed within a person/social interaction; assertions and social expressive (no, yes, want; please, ouch)  
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Phonetic stability   Determining factor of TFW; child replicates same phonetic form; captures adult's attention  
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Phonetically Consistent Form   Consistent vocal patterns that accompany gestures prior to the appearance of words; although phonetically stable, may not be referentially stable  
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Phonology   Sound system; aspect of language concerned with the rules governing the structure, distribution and sequencing of speech-sound patterns  
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Plural   more than one thing/object  
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Pragmatics   Situational use; aspect of language concerned with language use within communication context  
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Precursor behavior   Social precursors: turn taking; joint reference, game playing Cognitive precursors: object permanence; deferred imitation; symbolic and combinatorial play; means-end abilities (tool use)  
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Predicate   One of the tow main parts of a sentence; must contain verb + objects;predicates, adverbs  
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Prefix   beginning root of a word  
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Presupposition   Process of assuming which information a listener possesses or may need  
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Pre-word   Idiosyncratic word; not adult baed; may be phonetically and referentially stable  
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Production   For a word to be a TFW, the utterance must be adult based, referentially stable and phonetically stable  
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Pronoun   Examples: me, you, her, she, that etc  
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Proper noun   Specific nominal; names of specific people, things, or places  
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Prosody (suprasegmental devices)   Paralinguistic mechanisms superimposed on the verbal signal to change the form and meaning of the sentence by acting across the elements or segments of that sentence (examples: intonation, stress, and inflection)  
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Protesting   Speech act; usually negative word (no)  
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Protoword   Prior to first words  
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Protoconversation   Vocal interactions between mothers and infants the resemble verbal exchanges of more mature conversations  
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Prototype   Best exemplar or a composite of the concept; fruit (apple)  
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Reciprocal action   Game playing-social precursor to language (patty cake)  
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Reduplication   Phonological process in which child repeats one syllable in a multisyllabic word, as in wawa for water; baba for bottle etc  
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Referential stability   Child matches up word with classes of references consistently  
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Referential use   With vocabulary growth, child begins to label more things and calling for specific nominals; vocal matches with referents  
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Regression   When children shift from isolated words to regular patterns, may appear to regress in production of words; reorganization of sound system to move forward may appear as regression  
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Rehearsal (in learning)   process of maintaining info within long-term memory; repetition, drill or practice  
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Relational word   Words that refer across entities including action, location, appearance, disappearance and possession; close class words; verbs etc  
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Repeating/practicing   Children practice word production in independent/representational play  
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Representational play   Children use objects to represent another object in play; words represent other objects; playing house outside etc  
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Requesting action   Speech act; (verb or possessive pronoun me)  
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Requesting answer   speech act (what? that?)  
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Rote   High frequency of input; proves effective in learning words  
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Semantics   Aspect of language concerned with rules governing the meaning or content of words or grammatical units; word meaning  
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Social smile   Infant's smile in response to an external social stimulus  
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Socioeconomic status   Little effect on word learning; more affluent families will be able to provide children with more semantic input-own more things, children are exposed to more objects which allow for increase in vocabulary producation  
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Sound avoidance   Some children avoid certain sounds; Class example: /u/  
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Sound preference   Some children prefer certain sounds; class example: bilabials (bottle, bubble)  
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Specific nominal   Proper noun; specific people, place or thing  
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Specificity Hypothesis   Word choice is correlated with the cognitive development: object permanence: disappearance (all gone); means-ends: success (yes/no) and failure words (no/can't) Means- ends behavior show overall better correlation with language development  
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Speech Act   Basic unit of communication; an intentional, verbally encoded message that includes the speaker's intentions, the speaker's meaning, the listener's interpretation: requesting action, protesting, requesting answer, labeling, answering, greetings, rep, call  
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Statement extension   Children do not label an object, but make a statement about it in relation to another object; ex: saying Dolly upon seeing the empty doll's bed  
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Stereotyped gesture   a child reaches "for show"adults are able to interpret the behavior as the child expressing a want.the term would apply equally to any other gestural behavior used consistently to communicate meaning  
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Subject   person/thing doing the action (verb)  
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Subordinate   Specific lexical level (dachshund in dog example in notes); often times too complicated for children to grasp  
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Substantive word   Words that refer to specific entities or class of entities that have certain shared features  
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Suffix   Ending root of a word  
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Superordinate   Broad lexical level often times too abstract (not concrete enough) for children to understand; (animal in dog example)  
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Symbolic play   Representational play  
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Syntax   Organizational rules specifying word order, sentence organization and word relationships  
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Tool use   Means-ends ability  
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True First Word   Must be adult based, referentially and phonetically stable  
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Turn taking   Social precursor for language  
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Underextension   Process in which a child applies a word meaning to fewer exemplars than an adult would. The child's definition is too restrictive and more limited than in adult usage  
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Visual regard   direction in which someone is looking; when two people have shared visual regard, they are looking in the same direction, establishing shared visual regard between an adult and a baby is an important achievement  
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