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21 Cards in this Set
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babbling (156)
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- A young child's production of syllables that contain pairs of consonants and vowels (C-V sequence when consonant precedes the vowel).
-Begins ages 6-10 months -See also, jargon; marginal babbling; nonreduplicated babbling; reduplicated babbling |
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declarative pointing (164)
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-Pointing by an infant to cal an adult's attention to objects and to comment on objects.
-Involves social process between infant and adult -Occurs after 10 months -Contrast with imperative pointing |
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dishabituation (174)
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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
-Contrast with habituation |
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duration (148)
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-The length of sounds
-One of three prosodic characteristics of speech -Contrast with frequency; intensity |
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expressive language (170)
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-The language a person produces spontaneously, without imitating another person's verbalizations.
-Includes: content, form, and use -Contrast with receptive language |
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habituation (174)
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-Describes task involving presenting an infant with the same stimulus repeatedly until his or her attention to the stimulus decreases by a predetermined amount
-Contrast with dishabituation |
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imperative pointing (164)
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-Pointing by an infant to request an adult to retrieve an object for him or her
-Occurs around age 10 months -Contrast with declarative pointing |
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intersubjective awareness (163)
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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 (148)
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-The prominence placed on various parts of sentences
-Contrast with stress |
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jargon (157)
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-A special type of babbling that contains the true melodic patterns of an infant's native language
-Resembles questions, exclamations, and commands, even in the absence of unrecognizable words -See also, marginal babbling; nonduplicated babbling; reduplicated babbling |
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marginal babbling (156)
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-Early type of babbling
-Contains short strings of consonant-like and vowel-like sounds -Emerges as infants gain control of their articulation at 5-8 months -See also, jargon; nonreduplicated babbling; reduplicated babbling |
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nonreduplicated babbling (157)
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-Also known as variegated babbling
-Consists of nonrepeating consonant-vowel combinations, such as "da ma goo ga" -Occurs around 6-10 months -See also, jargon; marginal babbling -Contrast with reduplicated babbling |
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paralinguistic (160)
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-Aspects of communication outside the linguistic information, such as pitch, loudness, posture, and eye contact
-With infant-directed speech, paralinguistic features include a high overall pitch, exaggerated pitch contours, and slower tempos than those of adult-directed speech |
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phonetic regularities (147)
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-Refers to phonemes (speech sounds) and combinations of phonemes
-Infants pay close attention to the phonetic details of speech to learn words -Contrast with prosodic |
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prosodic regularities (147)
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-Refers to the frequency (pitch), duration (length), and intensity (loudness) of sounds.
-Combinations of prosodic characteristics produce distinguishable stress and intonation patterns that infants can detect to parse the speech stream -Contrast with phonetic |
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receptive language (170)
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-The language people comprehend
-Contrast with expressive language |
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reduplicated babbling (157)
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-Babbling that consists of repeating consonant-vowel pairs, such as "da da da"
-See also, jargon; marginal babbling -Contrast with nonreduplicated babbling |
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stress (148)
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-The prominence placed on certain syllables of multsyllabic words
-Contrast with intonation |
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supported joint engagement (163)
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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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variegated babbling (157)
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-See nonredupliated babbling
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voice onset time (150)
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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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