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23 Cards in this Set
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Infancy (0-24 months)
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Crying - short phrases
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Preschool years (2-5 years)
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Early sentences - stories
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School age years (5-21 years)
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Oral language - written language
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Grammatical Morphemes
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Articles such as a/the
Prepositions such as to/in Inflections (ex: -ed) Possession: 's |
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People with language problems can't understand...
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idioms
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Communication
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Entire process of exchanging meaning.
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Language
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A finite number of rules by which we can communicate an infinite number of meanings
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Phonemes
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In english - vowels & consonants
(Each language has this unique abstract set of speech sounds) |
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Allophones
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Variations in the productions of individual speech sounds in a language (Ex: the 't' in straw vs. tail) as the fxn of the word that they occur it & we can't do the same thing each time
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Syllables
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Combinations of sounds.
Basic unit of speech production. (one vowel at least) |
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Phonological processing
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Ability to say how many syllables are in a word
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Prosody
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Differences in intensity, stress, melody, inflection & pitch; intonation and rhythm of a spoken language
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Lexicon
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How many words you know. Arbitrary terms given to underline concepts we already understand.
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Building blocks of language
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Language content, form & use
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Representational meaning
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Meaning is more than words
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Phonology
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Rules for putting together sounds
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Morphology
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Rules for combining things into words.
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Free morphene
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Unit of meaning that can stand alone (Ex: cat)
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Bound Morphene
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Unit of speech that can't stand alone (-s)
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Pragmatics
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Who you talk to and in what way. (understood based on experience)
Rules for the use of language. |
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2-5 years
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Lexical Semantics (vocab growth); Relational Semantics (multiple relationships btwn words); plurals; assertiveness/responsiveness;narration
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5-21 years
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Complex sentences; oral vs. literate language; narration/explanation/persuasion/negotiation
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Adulthood
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Vocab declines late in life; difficulty comprehending complex sentences; lexical semantics
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