Splh 566 exam 2 stuvia Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Phonological Development - Answer Has a strong influence on the first words a child produces. Finding phonemes=building block for language. Earliest Acquired Sounds - Answer (a) Stops b, d, k, g (b) Nasals ng—later, m, n (c) Glides w, j Latest Acquired Sounds - Answer (a) Affricates ch, j (b) Some fricatives v, s, sh, th (c) Liquids l, r What factors account for order of acquisition of phonemes? - Answer 1. Production constraints PPF Production constraints of early sounds E...

Presupposition - Answer (1) In general, a preschool child becomes increasingly adept at knowing what information to include, how to arrange it, and which particular lexical items and linguistic forms to use. Assumption about what listener knows. (2) Development: (a) 3 years: (i) children are generally able to determine the ______amount_____ of information a listener needs. (ii) Most 3-year-olds can distinguish between ____definite____ and __indefinite________ articles. A vs. the. ...

Phonological Development - Answer Has a strong influence on the first words a child produces. Finding phonemes=building block for language. Earliest Acquired Sounds - Answer (a) Stops b, d, k, g (b) Nasals ng—later, m, n (c) Glides w, j Latest Acquired Sounds - Answer (a) Affricates ch, j (b) Some fricatives v, s, sh, th (c) Liquids l, r What factors account for order of acquisition of phonemes? - Answer 1. Production constraints PPF Production constraints of early sounds E...

Lower ___________ (abbreviation) can be detrimental to language development due to lack of resources, heightened risk of health issues and poor education, and limited parent-child interactions due to parental work schedules - Answer SES The ____ explanation assumes that words are learned in parallel and that children are actually learning words the whole time but must reach a threshold of learning difficult words. - Answer No Discontinuity The ____ explanation suggests that children use wo...

How do cognition and language co-develop? - Answer comprehension and production become more and more inseparable comprehension proceeds production, but that production also boosts comprehension. Which comes first comprehension or production? What happens over time? - Answer Comprehension precedes production early in development, but over time comprehension and production become less separable. How do children find words within the speech stream? - Answer Word segmentation What cues d...

Object permanence developed, what happened with language? - Answer Certain words emerge in their language like "all gone" Means-ends behavior and problem solving developed, what happened with language? - Answer Certain words emerge in their language like "uh oh" Categorization emerged, what happened with language? - Answer Huge increase in vocabulary Many of the principles of cognitive learning can also be applied to language learning—children: - Answer Selectively attend to perce...