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baby talk
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one of the many names for the speech register used with young children. the term is sometimes used to refer to the speech of young children as well.
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biological capactity
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innate factors which are those present in the organism by virtue of its genetic make up
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comment
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an early communicative function in which an infant calls a caregivers attention to somethign in the surroundings ofren by gesturing or pointing
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communicative functions
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the purposes for which language is used. for instance even in infants use lang. to express rejection requests and comments
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communicative temptation tasks
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tasks designed to elict communication efforts from an infant
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controlling interactional style
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a way of talking to infants that is intrusive, constantly redirecting the child's attention in constrast to a responsive style
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infant directed speech
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speech directed at infant that contains special modifications
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format
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Vygotskyian theory that adults are thought to provide intellutual interaction that serves as a scaffold or format that makes it possible for children to develop at a much faster rate than they could without this helping intervention
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gaze coupling
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a type of mutual eye contact that is very important to caregivers in establishing the original affective bond with the infant
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imperative communicative function
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an early communicative function in which an infant indicates that she wants the caregiver to perform some action
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intentional communication
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any communicative act that an indiviual engages in purposefully
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intrusive interactional style
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a way of interacting with an infant in which the caregiver is constantly controlling and redirecting the child's attention
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joint attention
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situation in which two indiviuals are paying attention to the same thing at the same time
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low structured observation
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a method of studying young children that often relies upon free play with a standard set of toys
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MacArthur communicative development inventories
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norms that are available for varouis aspects of lang. development, based on a large study that collected mothers' reports on their children's communicative behaviors. there are two scales, one for infants and one for toddlers
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means-end concept
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children at stage 4 of the piagets sensorimotor stage of cognitive development begin to understand causality and learn to communicate intenionally, lending suppport to the notion that certain cognitive developments might be prerequisities to lang. acquistion
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Piagetian Stage 4
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a substage of the sensorimotor period of cognitive development that occurs b/t eight and twelve months when infants beginto understand the relation b/t actions and outcomes.
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prelinguistic
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occuring before the infant can speak
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prosodic features
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aspects of the speech stream, such as stress and intonation, that convey differences in the meaning of words or sentences
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protoword
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a sequence of sounds that has a realtively consistent meaning but is not necessarily based on any adult word.
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rejection
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one of the communcative functions seen in infants the purposeful termination of an interaction
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responsive interactional style
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manner of interacting with an infant that allows the infant to set the pace and determine the topics engaged in.
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sensitive interactional style
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a way of interacting with a lang. learning child that takes its lead from the child's interest. for instance the parent labels what the child is pointing at
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social cognition
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knowledge about other people that makes interpersonal interaction possible
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structured observation
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a research design that imposes some consistency on observation by keeping some things constant, for instance by bringing children into a lab playroom and giving them each the same toys
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