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When does language development begin?
At birth
_____ plays an important role as the child learns about the world.
Language
Children learn objects have _____ or _____
Labels or Names
Children learn to use language to attain their _____ and _____
Needs and desires
The precursors to language begin in contexts that provide _____ and _____
experience and stimulation
A child who says "waaah" and reaches for a cookie is said to be how old?
6 months
A child who says "Wanna cookie?" is said to be how old?
2 years old
A child that says " Can I have a cookie?" is said to be how old?
4 years old
A child who says " Wow. Those cookies smell good" is said to be how old?
7 years old
True or false: Infants are aware of language around them.
True
As young as _____ weeks, a child can respond to human language
4 weeks
Children develop responses to _____ patterns.
Intonation
A child will start to respond to their name at how old?
5 months
True or false: A child may confuse their name with other words or syllables that sound the same.
True
True or false: Children do not learn that entities and events have labels.
False
True or false: Infants are sensitive to and are able to perceive differences between very similar sounds.
True
Sensitivity and nonnative sounds disappear by how old?
8-10 months old
True or false: The loss of sensitivity corresponds to the time when infants begin to produce sounds.
True
Is a loss of sensitivity a total loss?
No
Would losing sensitivity to differences make it difficult to learn a new language?
Yes
Burping and crying are examples of _____
Reflexive sounds
Who produces reflexive sounds?
Newborns
An infant will gaze at the caretaker and make vowel-like utterances at how old?
1 month old
Laughter and cooing appear; partial production of consonants and vowels appear at how old?
2 months old
Turn taking with adults starts to appear, the child will make utterances with consonant and vowel sounds like "bah" and "gah" at how old?
3 months old
An infant begins to use the tongue with greater strength and control at what age?
4 months old
The infant begins to imitate sounds including intonation at how old?
5 months old
At 5-7 months, a child begins to produce _____ and _____ sequences
Vowel and syllable
"da da da da" is an example of _____
reduplicated babbling
"ma da pa ga" is an example of _____
Variegated babbling
The child begins to imitate what they hear (words, phrases, intonation) at how old?
8-12 months
A child begins to produces sequences of syllables at how old?
9-12 months
The label for first "words" which are generally quite unintelligible are called _____
Jargon
Production attempts to approximate real words is called _____
Phonetically consistent forms
_____ is an important stage in language development
Babbling
Know:

With Babbling, Children store the sound patterns they hear and produce. The children then draw on those patterns to produce meaningful speech at later ages.
Know
What is reduplicated babbling?
consonant-vowel sequences
What is variegated babbling?
syllable sequences
Know: Language development at 18-36 months

-language develops rapidly

-children are able to use language in a creative manner.
Ex: "up mommy" or "doggy food."

-most of this language is prelinguistic, meaning not yet recognizable.

-Novel utterances reflect the innate skills that allow children to use language in a creative manner.

-Language development takes place over a short period of time and without direct instruction.
Know
What age does stage 1 consist of in Piaget's stages of cognitive development, and what happens?
Birth-1 month; Accommodation or modulation of schema
What age does stage 2 consist of in Piaget's stages of cognitive development, and what happens?
1-4 months; Eye-hand coordination develops; visual tracking of moving objects begins; able to localize
sounds
What age does stage 3 consist of in Piaget's stages of cognitive development, and what happens?
4-8 months; Imitation of sounds appears, reaches for
objects, anticipates path of a moving object
What age does stage 4 consist of in Piaget's stages of cognitive development, and what happens?
8-12 months; Anticipate events, means-end behavior;
increased imitation; knows an object exists
even when not in sight
What age does stage 5 consist of in Piaget's stages of cognitive development, and what happens?
12-18 months; Children experiment, explore, and use
established schemes or patterns of behavior to solve new problems
What age does stage 6 consist of in Piaget's stages of cognitive development, and what happens?
18-24 months; Solve problems through thought, produce
labels for objects or actions, observe an action,
store it in memory, and reproduce this action
later
_____ is an essential component in cognitive and language development
Play
Some of the most popular social interaction games (patty-cake, wave bye-bye, peek-a-boo, so-big, give kisses) are great games to play because they involve _____.

So-big example- "How big is baby?" baby lifts hand up and says "so big"
Communication
_____ + _____ contribute to child's early language comprehension
Early games+ Linguistic labels
_____ are defined as using a word to represent an entity or activity through language. (acting out, or using symbols).
Symbolic functions
Know:

True symbolic knowledge is when the child uses the word when the object is not in view.

-Ex: child says mommy when she's not in the room.
Know
Using a box or another item to represent a real object is an example of _____
Symbolic functions
_____ is when you separate an object from an immediate context
decontextualize
_____ is the beginning of the ability to decontextualize

Ex: A child will use a block as a phone. They will talk about the past or future, but not about what is going on at the current moment.
Pretend symbolic play
Symbolic or Pretend play

at _____ months, play frequently includes banging, putting one thing in another and some activities with dolls and stuffed toys

**This is more pretend than symbolic
12 months
Symbolic or Pretend play

at _____ months, play consists of familiar activities and things the child actually does
18 months
Symbolic or Pretend play

at _____ months, children's play entails more complex sequences
24 months
Symbolic or Pretend play

at _____ months, children include props, which have roles
24-30 months
Symbolic or Pretend play

at _____ months, play widens to include familiar but less
frequently occurring events and activities
30 months
Symbolic or Pretend play

at _____ months, play becomes more complex, with activities consisting of multiple sequences and the use of language
36 months (3 years)
_____ skills of language impaired children, as
reflected in play behaviors, were significantly less complex and age-appropriate
Cognitive
The observation of young children's _____ may alert us to the possibility of difficulties in language development
Play
Toddlers are sometimes hard to understand because they don't produce the adult _____ with accuracy

A parent will know what their child is saying, but someone else will not
Target words
Know

Children show an early preference for a consonant-vowel shape

This results in pronouncing words without the final sound.

Toddlers prefer a pattern consistent with their native language.
Know
_____ means repetition
Reduplication
There is a difference between a child's speech and _____
Adult pronunciation
Know

Some of the phonological processes errors that children will make are :

Unstressed syllable deletion- nana for banana

Reduplication- dada for daddy

Final syllable deletion- bu for bus

Consonant cluster reduction- top for stop
Know
Know: Early childhood teacher need to have a good understanding of normative morpho-syntactic development regarding typical development
Know
Nana for banana is an example of _____
unstressed syllable deletion
dada for daddy is an example of _____
Reduplication
bu for bus is an example of _____
Final syllable deletion
Top for stop is an example of _____
Consonant cluster reduction
What age does stage 1 consist of in morphosyntactic development, and what happens?
12-26 months; single word utterances and multiword communications that follow syntactic rules
What age does stage 2 consist of in morphosyntactic development, and what happens?
27-30 months; grammatical morphemes appear. Examples are ing, plurals, and possessives
What age does stage 3 consist of in morphosyntactic development, and what happens?
24-30 months; begin to produce negatives, imperatives, and interrogatives.
What age does stage 4 consist of in morphosyntactic development, and what happens?
35-40 months; complex structures emerge, children connect meaningful pairs of words which have some relationship
_____ is the component of language that refers to meaning and the rules that govern the assignment of meaning to entities.
Semantics
True or false: Semantic development appears when children become aware that things have labels.

Example: Child says bottle
True
Vocabulary development begins at _____ and continues as the child becomes more semantically aware
Birth
When children develop a consistent connection between _____ and _____, it indicates semantic awareness
word and thing
Children's early word production errors are the lack or correlation between the child's _____and adults _____ of these words.
Meanings and use
Children form ideas or hypothesis about _____
Meaning
Their hypothesis can lead to _____, which is using the same word for objects that look similar. This results from not knowing the correct word.
over generalization
Word meanings develop over time through _____ and growing _____ of the world.
experience and knowledge
Children's receptive vocabulary (words they hear and understand) is often much _____ than their expressive vocabulary (words they can produce and use).
Larger
Infants are capable of producing _____ communication to indicate their needs and wants
Intentional
Early _____ provide a picture of the toddler's mental representations long before he/she can produce the words.
Gestures
Toddlers produce more ______ than older children.
Gestures
The use of gestures is an indication of children's _____ language skills.
prelinguistic (before verbal language emerges)
_____ is to obtain a goal or satisfy a need
Instrumental function

Ex: pointing at crackers
_____is to control another person's behavior
Regulatory function
_____ is to obtain joint attention (mom and child communication)

Ex: social function
Interaction function
_____ is to express feelings or attitudes.
Personal function
At what age do communicative events start to appear
1-2 years
_____ is gaining attention, requests, and calling
Regulatory intent
_____ is naming, describing, and giving information beyond here and now
Statement intent
_____ are descriptions of activities.
Exchange intent
_____ is refusal or protest
Intent to act or not
_____ is imitation, answer, conversational responses, or questions
Conversational intent
_____ are when the speaker's intent results in the actions of another person.

Examples:
-Greetings- Hi
-Promise- I promise to eat my peas
-Request- Gimme Cookie
- Indirect request- Can I have a cookie?
- Complaint- Why can't I help?
-Invitation- Come play with me
- Refusal- No, wanna go to bed.
Speech acts
Cultural differences may appear in _____ and _____
Play and social interactions
Differences in language can be related to _____
Social economic status
True or false: There seems to be a difference in the ability to learn novel word meanings because of cultural or socioeconomic status
False
True or false: children from low SES homes must work harder in preschool and the primary grades to extend their language vocabularies.
True
Know: Language differences must be recognized as differences in acquiring and using language.

Differences do not imply a language disorder or a lack of intelligence
Know
_____ infants and toddlers do not have a disability, but the environment or home may make them at risk.
At risk
_____ are those who do not attain developmental milestones at the expected times.
At risk
_____ provides practice for the production of speech sounds and words
Babbling
_____ between an adult and a child is the basis for word learning
Joint eye contact
Infants and toddlers at risk will only have a vocabulary of about _____ words at 24 months
50 words
True or false: It is best to err on the side of caution. Do not wait!
True
Know: Supporting infant language development

-Imitate the infant's production of sounds
-Play early social games such as peek-a-boo and patty-cake
-Use language to describe actions- yours and the infants
-Label things and actions as you are walking
-Talk about the sounds animals make
-Introduce book reading
Know
Know: Supporting toddler's language development

-Talk about what is going on around the toddler
-Point to things and talk about them, using simple words and short sentences
-Play with Rhyme
-Ask the toddler to point to pictures on things and name them
-Name things and ask the toddler to point to what you name
-Read stories with simple sentences and pictures that help the toddler associate words with things
Know