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statistical learning |
learning that uses information about what is used most in language in order to systematically disregard unimportant information |
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how does the child's production of speech affect the caregiver and vice versa? |
If a child sees positive reactions from his or her utterances, they are more likely to repeat those utterances as well as try new ones. Parents can influence child language production by the way they react to tried utterances |
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At what age do babies first smile when spoken to? |
1-2 months |
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at what age do babies start experimenting with phonemes? |
3-7 months |
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still face expiriment |
that thing you do with ross sometimes that freaks him out |
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why is joint attention important for language development? |
joint attention helps establish proper labels and aids in conversational skills |
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protowords |
phonemes or short words that are used to represent a label for a real item (gaga for water or ba for bottle) |
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why is child directed speech important? |
children learn language more easily from child-directed intonations. Children learn best from happy moms. |
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Who experimented with low and high SES children and tried to link how many words were spoken to the children and how many words the child could produce by age 3? |
Hartand Risley |
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structured communication |
games or mealtimes that have conversation and turn-taking built into them. children often do much of their language acquisition during these time periods |
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prelinguistic stage |
age before first word, usually the first year of life |
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besides statistical learning, what other cognitive skills are important to acquiring language? |
categorization selective attention phonological working memory |
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gaze coupling |
following the gaze of your conversation partner |
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in what ways do children express their communicative intent before speaking their first words? |
gestures, sounds, and protowords |
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Rowe- and Goldin-Meadow study |
the number of things a child could communicate via gesture predicted the number of words he could speak later on |
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imperatives |
communicative function in which an infant indicates that he or she wants the caregiver to do something |
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declaratives |
communicative function in which an infant points or gestures to something in order to bring caregiver attention to it. |
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criteria for intentional communication |
-eye contact while gesturing or vocalizing -consistent and ritualized gestures and/or vocalizations -pause to wait for response -persistence in attempting to communicate |
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how many words are in a child's vocabulary, on average, by 2 years of age? |
50 |
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