Language Development Ch 5 Infancy

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Babbling

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A young child's production of syllables that contain pairs of consonants and vowels (C-V)

This usually begins bt. 6-10 months

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Declarative Pointing

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Pointing by an infant to call an adult's attention to objects and to comment on objects.

Involves a social process bt. infant and adult.

Occurs after age 10 months

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Dishabituation

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Describes a phase in a task used to renew an infant's interest in a stimulus according to a predetermined threshold.

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Duration

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One of the three prosodic characteristics of speech.

The length of sounds.

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Expressive Language

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The language a person produces spontaneously, without imitating another person's verbalizations.

Includes content, form and use.

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Habituation

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Describes a task involving presenting an infant with the same stimulus repeatedly until his or her attention to the stimulus decreases by a predetermined amount.

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Imperative Pointing

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What an infant does to request an adult to retrieve an object for them.

Occurs around 10 months.

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Intersubjective Awareness

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Recognition of when one person shares a mental focus on some external object or action with another person.

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Intonation

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The prominence placed on various parts of sentences.

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Jargon

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A special type of babbling that contains the true melodic patterns of an infant's native language. It resembles questions, exclamations, and commands, even in absence of recognizable words.

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Marginal Babbling

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An early type of babbling containing short strings of consonant-like and vowel-like sounds.

Usually emerges as infants gain control of their articulation: 5-8 months

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Nonreduplicated Babbling

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Variegated Babbling

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Babbling consisting of nonrepeating consonant-vowel combinations, sugh as "da ma goo ga"

Occurs around age 6-10 months

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Paralinguistic

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Aspects of communication outside the linguistic information, such as pitch, loudness, posture, and eye contact.

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Phonetic Regularities

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Individual and combinations of speech sounds that infants use to segment the speech stream.

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Prosodic Regularities

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Stress patterns and intonations that infants use to segment the speech stream.

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Receptive Language

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The language people comprehend.

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Reduplicated Babbling

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Babbling that consists of repeating consonant-vowel pairs, such as "da da da."

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Stress

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The prominence placed on certain syllables of multisyllabic words.

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Supported Joint Engagement

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Joint attention in which adults use such techniques as speaking with an animated voice or showing an infant novel objects.

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Voice Onset Time

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The interval between the release of a stop consonant such as p, b, t, or d and the onset of vocal cord vibrations

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What is language as category maker hypothesis?

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Language guides children from a young age as they perceive the spacial relationships around them.

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6 vocalization stages of development for SAEVD

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1) Reflexive
2) Control of Phonation
3) Expansion
4) Control of Articulation
5) Canonical Syllables
6) Advanced Forms

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ID Speech (Infant Directed)

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The speech adults use in communicative situations with young language learners.

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Syntactic Characteristics of Infant Directed (ID)

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-Shorter MLU
-More content words
-Less function words

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Discourse Features of Infant Directed (ID)

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More repetition and questions

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3 Phases of Language Development Through Social Interactions

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1) Attendance to social patterns.
2) Emergence & coordination of joint attention.
3) Transition to language.

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7 Caregiver Responses

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(The key to language development in infancy)
1) Waiting & listening
2) Follow child's lead
3) Joining in & playing
4) Being face to face
5) Use variety of ?'s and labels
6) Encouraging turn taking
7) Expanding & extending

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4 Research Paradigms for Infancy

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1) Habituation/Dishabituation
2) IPLP (Intermodal preferential looking paradigm)
3) IIPLP (Interactive IPLP)
4) Natural observation

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Infants communicating intentionally use these preverbal language functions:

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-Attention seeking to self
-Attention seeking to events, objects or other people
-Requesting objects
-Requesting action
-Requesting information
-Greeting
-Transferring
-Protesting or rejecting
-Responding or acknowledging
-Informing