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language development

Title: language development
Description: Language Development UofU spring 2007
Number of Cards: 165
Author: Luv569007
Created: 2007-02-15
Tags: development speech
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articulation motor production....once articulators begin moving = articulation
Phonemics distinctive units of sound
Phonotactics rules for organizing sounds
prosody the inonation contour of speech, including pauses and changes in stress in speech
coarticulation are consonants produced with two simultaneous places of articulation
Phonetics information on how sounds are produced
(not /pap/ have to put [phap})
Phonemics distinctive units of sound
Whole Object Assumption internal constrants
use knowledge how grammer works to illiminate possible meanings
Lexical Principal
Phonotactics rules about how sounds are organized into words
Taxonomic assumption catagorizing words
some words refer to the same kind of thing
Lexical Principal
Mutual exclusivity assumption different words apply to different things (if it already has a name, new word must mean something else)
Lexical Principal
prosody the inonation contour of speech, including pauses and changes in stress in speech
coarticulation are consonants produced with two simultaneous places of articulation
Principal of conventionality observe everone around them use a word a certain way
Pragmatic principle
Whole Object Assumption internal constrants
use knowledge how grammer works to illiminate possible meanings
Lexical Principal
Principle of contrast differ words have differ meanings (overides mutaul exclutivity)
Socio-pragmatic cue
Taxonomic assumption catagorizing words
some words refer to the same kind of thing
Lexical Principal
communicative intent of partner used to figure out word...a mother would not call milk another word after child has used milk
Socio-pragmatic cues
Mutual exclusivity assumption different words apply to different things (if it already has a name, new word must mean something else)
Lexical Principal
Principal of conventionality observe everone around them use a word a certain way
Pragmatic principle
Read social cues (eye gaze) child can figure out what a mother is looking at and therefore talking about
Input as a source of support Talk about the "here and now"
Label what the child is looking at
Gestures (pointing)
Principle of contrast differ words have differ meanings (overides mutaul exclutivity)
Socio-pragmatic cue
communicative intent of partner used to figure out word...a mother would not call milk another word after child has used milk
Socio-pragmatic cues
Syntactic bootstrapping
(hypothesis)
children find and use clues to the meaning of new words in the syntactic structure of the sentences in which new words are encountered
Mental Lexicon phonological knowledge of word
grammatical knowledge of word
definition of the word
Read social cues (eye gaze) child can figure out what a mother is looking at and therefore talking about
Input as a source of support Talk about the "here and now"
Label what the child is looking at
Gestures (pointing)
Syntactic bootstrapping
(hypothesis)
children find and use clues to the meaning of new words in the syntactic structure of the sentences in which new words are encountered
Mental Lexicon phonological knowledge of word
grammatical knowledge of word
definition of the word
Phonetics The study of sounds of speech
Phoneme distinctive units of sound
Phonotactics knowledge of constrants of sequences of sounds
(g+z is not allowed)
prosody the inonation contour of speech, including pauses and changes in stress in speech
coarticulation producing two sounds simutaniously, blending sounds between words
"finish it"
Whole Object Assumption internal constrants
use knowledge how grammer works to illiminate possible meanings
Lexical Principal
Taxonomic assumption catagorizing words
some words refer to the same kind of thing
Lexical Principal
Mutual exclusivity assumption different words apply to different things (if it already has a name, new word must mean something else)
Lexical Principal
Principal of conventionality pbserve everone around them use a word a certain way
Pragmatic principle
Principle of contrast differ words have differ meanings (overides mutaul exclutivity)
Socio-pragmatic cue
communicative intent of partner used to figure out word...a mother would not call milk another word after child has used milk
Socio-pragmatic cues
Read social cues (eye gaze) child can figure out what a mother is looking at and therefore talking about
Input as a source of support Talk about the "here and now"
Label what the child is looking at
Gestures (pointing)
Syntactic bootstrapping
(hypothesis)
children find and use clues to the meaning of new words in the syntactic structure of the sentences in which new words are encountered
Mental Lexicon phonological knowledge of word
grammatical knowledge of word
definition of the word
What is a word sound sequences that symbolize meaning and that can stand alone
symbols
arbitrary
referance/nonreferential
things, ideas, concepts, uses
concepts vs. words concepts: motion, causality, space, time
Words: through, kill, behind, before
Pinker's notion of Mentalese language of thought
properties of first 10 words large individual variation in first words

context bound words
contextually flexible nominal
non-nominal contextually flexable
context bound words only say word in specific context (light)
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