Cdo 130

Front 1

What is echolalia?

Back 1

Immitation of a verbal model

Immitate what they hear. They may not understand what they repeat.

Front 2

When acquiring language is the child an active or passive participant according to the behaviorists? The social ineractionists?

Back 2

Active

Front 3

What does Piaget mean by adaption?

Back 3

How they adapt to new knowledge, they accommodate or assimilate.

Front 4

Are all languages governed by the same rules?

Back 4

No

Front 5

According to Vygotsky, what is the purpose of language?

Back 5

Language is a way a child develops cognition and communication because they want to be social and be a part of the people around them.

Front 6

Private speech is a concept related to which theorist?

Back 6

Lev Vygotsky

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Does Noam Chomsky believe that language is innate?

Back 7

Yes

Front 8

Define what perception refers to according to the Information Processing Theory.

Back 8

Selecting, organizing, integrating, and interpreting sensory information.

Front 9

What is a mand?

Back 9

A request/demand.

Front 10

What does babbling consist of?

Back 10

Vowels and consonants.

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What is a schema?

Back 11

A concept, mental category, or cognitive structure to organize items in our environment.

Front 12

What is object permanence?

Back 12

Things exist even if you can't see them.

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What is the child doing with new information if she is assimilating versus accommodating?

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Assimilation is taking a new stimulus and incorporating it into an existing schema.

Accommodation is when you incorporate new stimuli that does not fit into an already existing schema.

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What is the primary advantage of the vocal-auditory channel?

Back 14

This feature is convenient because it allows us to be efficient communicators in conjunction with other physical task.

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Where do the nativists believe that language comes from?

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Language is innate/biological

Language acquisition device (LAD)

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Non-Linguistic cues

Back 16

Things that add to the conversation without using words or making a sound.

Facial expressions, posture, eye contact, gestures, waving, etc.

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Paralinguistic cues

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How we say things.

Tone of voice, loudness, Intonation/melody, stress, rate, exaggerating words.

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Metalinguistic

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Understanding language and recognizing the humor in it.

Ability to understand jokes, puns, rhyming,etc.

Like having a favorite word and finding humor in it because you like to say it or not liking a word.

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Morpheme

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The smallest grammatical unit that has meaning.

Free morphemes hat, car, computer, sandbox

bound morpheme includes suffixes and prefixes, running

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Phoneme

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Smallest unit of sound that has a meaning

44 phonemes in English

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Syntax

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Rules

Word order and relationship amoung words

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Morphology

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Rules for the internal organization of words/word form

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Phonology

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Rules regarding structure, distribution, and sequencing of speech sounds

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Semantics

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Rules governing meaning/content of words and word combinations.

Semantic features are specific to our own knowledge in our lexicon.

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Pragmatics

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The social use of language

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What are some characteristics of motherese?

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Short, simple sentences
Repetition of child utterances
Higher pitch, exaggerated intonation
Lots of questions and commands
Significant pauses in speech
Talking about the present

Most useful between 18-24 months.

Front 27

What does the research reveal about motherese and language acquisition?

Back 27

No conclusive evidence to confirm it is essential in facilitating language acquisition.

Front 28

What is an agentive (Agent)?

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The initiator of an action

The QUARTERBACK threw the ball.

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What is an instrumental?

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An inanimate object that is the means by which an action occurred.

He opened the door with his KEY.
I ate my spaghetti with my FINGERS.

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What does the notion of a language acquisition devise enable us to do?

Back 30

Language processor that knows about languages in general.
Contains universal rules for all languages.
Language not learned through environment or teaching.

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What does the concept means-end refer to?

Back 31

Problem-solving, figuring out ways to get things done.

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What do the behaviorists believe about language acquisition?

Back 32

Language is learned

Environment is the most critical and important factor.

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Are the environment and caregivers relationships important concepts in language acquisition according to the social interactionists?

Back 33

Yes

Front 34

Are the environment and caregivers relationships important concepts in language acquisition according to the nativists?

Back 34

No

Front 35

What do the behaviorists believe is the most important factor in language acquisition?

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Environment is the most important critical and important factor.

Front 36

What is egocentrism?

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Means that the child sees and understands the world only as an extension of himself.

At birth and through the first 3 substages of the sensorimotor period, the child is egocentric.

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What is distancing?

Back 37

a basic perceptual principle affecting those cognitive changes that apparently precede and lay the foundation for language acquisition.

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Displacement

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Back to the Future

Humans can talk about things that are distant in time and space.

Advantage- No limit about when you say something, with whoever, whenever

Disadvantage- speaking at the wrong time

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Productivity

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The creativity of the mind and mouth

This is one of the most important design features of the human speech

We have the ability to be creative in our communication efforts.

Advantage- we will never run out of things to say

Disadvantage- sentences may not be accurate, or appropriate, may be silly.

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Specialization

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Speech is for talking- What else?

Speech is specifically designed for communication and serves no other purpose.

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Total feedback

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Did I say that?... Did I mean that?

We monitor what we say and how we say it.

We get feedback from our senses

*Someone looks confused when you are talking to them, by your eyes you can see that.

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Interchangeability

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If you can say it, I can say it

Any human being can say anything that is said by any other human being. Males and females produce the same speech forms.

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Traditional Transmission

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Born to talk

Speech is instinctive to human

We have genetic or biological capacity for language so powerful that few environmental factors can stop the acquisition of speech.

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Semanticity

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Sending messages loud and clear

Human convey very specific messages with words having relatively stable relationships with the people, things, events , and concepts they represent.

There is a word for everything

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Rapid Fading

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Hear today, gone tomorrow

Rapid fading means that speech signals do not linger...they "fade rapidly"

We can't freeze-frame speech

hit ear and go away-you say something and its gone

Disadvantage- you can't take it back vs. email you can backspace.

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Expansion

Back 46

When a caregiver responds to her child's early utterances.

Child says " Mommy work"
Adult says " Yes, mommy went to work"

Front 47

Which theorists believes that cognitive development and therefore language development, occur in a step-by-step developmental order.

Back 47

Jean Piaget

Front 48

During Piaget's sensorimotor substage___ a child is more social, is much more attentive and is beginning to babble.

Back 48

3

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By the end of the sensorimotor substage three, the child begins to produce combinations of cowel-like and consonant-like sounds referred to as______

Back 49

Babbling

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Even before the child begins to produce his first meaningful words, intentional communication can be observed in Piaget's sensorimotor substage_____

Back 50

4

Front 51

As young as 18 months, might begin to exhibit______

Back 51

Two-word utterances

Front 52

Which of the following refers to a child's ability to represent thoughts, ideas and objects internally or mentally?

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Symbolic representation

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The child who sees and understands the world only as an extension of himself is said to be________

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Egocentric

Front 54

When a child is able to figure out ways to acomplish goals, he understands the concept of

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Means-end

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I can say that another human being has said. This is known as which of the following design features proposed by Charles Hockett?

Back 55

Interchangeablitity

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Phonation or the production of sound/voice is not possible without which of the following structures?

Back 56

Vocal folds

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Which of the following design features proposed by Charles Hockett accounts for the fact that our hands are free to do other things while we are verbally communicating?

Back 57

Vocal/auditory channel

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__________ is the oral expression of language

Back 58

Speech

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The Semaphore Flag signalling system discussess in class is an example of how_____ can exist in the absence of ___________

Back 59

Language/speech

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Paralinguistic cues include which of the following?

Back 60

Intonation

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a ____ morpheme is one that can stand alone and have a specific meaning

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Free

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___ is the study of the internal organization of words and how they are put together

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Morphology