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15 Cards in this Set
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What is semantic developement
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The acquisition of words and their meanings. The development of knowledge into a hierarchical network of associated meanings
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What is referent?
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A word is an arbitrary sign that signifies a referent. Usually symbolic.
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What is the semantic feature view of how children acquire concepts?
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At first, the child's view of "dog" may only pertain to their particular dog. As time passes, they realize other creatures can be a dog too.
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What is the prototype theory and what are prototypes?
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Children acquire prototypes when they acquire meaning and only later come to recognize category meanings that are distant from prototypes. Examples: apples, collies, roses.
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what are classical concepts
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They require all members of a group to share specific features. Example: a triangle must have 3 sides
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What are probabilistic concepts?
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They have fuzzier boundaries and require that all members share some set of features, but may not necessarily share them all.
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What are probabilistic concepts?
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They have fuzzier boundaries and require that all members share some set of features, but may not necessarily share them all.
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What are children's early words like?
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Nouns, simpler phonemes to produce, one syllable words, approach them as a whole, avoid words with sounds they can't produce
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What are children's early words like?
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Nouns, simpler phonemes to produce, one syllable words, approach them as a whole, avoid words with sounds they can't produce
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List 10 ways that adult speech influences children's semantic developement
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Labeling, gaze behavior, dove tail, basic level categories, ostension, when superiors donates they use inclusion, pausing, exaggerated intonation, input is more clearly enunciated, using inner state worrds
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What is semantic network?
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The connections among words and concepts establishing links among multiple words and concepts.
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What is metalinguistic awareness?
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The knowledge of the nature of the language as an object. Develops gradually through middle school years.
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What is word concept awareness?
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Children must be able to isolate word-size segments of the speech stream in order to map meaning onto them
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What is word concept awareness?
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Children must be able to isolate word-size segments of the speech stream in order to map meaning onto them
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What is word- sound awareness?
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Phonological awareness has gained prominent attention in recent years because of it's relationship to reading acquisition segments
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