Splh 566 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Language - Answer a socially shared rule governed code or system for representing concepts through the use of symbols and rules that govern how they are combined Semantics: - Answer meaning/content Words as bricks-we use words to build sentences Word meaning Semantics features-aspects that characterize a word Selection restrictions-prohibit certain word combinations because they are meaningless syntax - Answer rules for combining words The way we organize sentences and how we put thos...

Language Development Shifts: - Answer i) Infancy: Language basics ii) Toddlerhood: First words & word combinations iii) Preschool: Language mechanics School-age: Refinement and increasing complexity How does the relationship of language comprehension and production shift over development? - Answer Increased syntactic complexity, increased vocabulary, bigger words, semantic understanding, abstract concepts. Why do language comprehension and production become less separable with developme...

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...

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...

how does the relationship of language and comprehension shift over time? - Answer comprehension precedes production, but they later become coalesced and are interrelated, becoming inseparable. Why do language and comprehension become less separable? - Answer they always rely on one another, it's hard to talk about them separately. Improvement in one component requires skills in another How do changes in cognition relate to school-aged development? - Answer concrete operational stage and f...

For reduplicated babbling, how does a baby's language develop when they produce reiterative consonant-vowel clusters? What do babies develop by changing the pitch and rate of reiterative consonant-vowel clusters and why? Towards the end of 10 months, infants' babbling tends to sound more word-like in reduplicated(canonical) babbling by saying things such as "dada" or "mama". This indicates that the quality of infants' vocalizations are changing pretty quickly and progressing. Infants are...

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. ...

Speech - Answer The acoustic production of sounds, involves oral/motor components to create acoustic production - can be completely meaningless (i.e. babbling) Language - Answer The representation of concepts in our minds; a socially shared code/conventional system for representing concepts through the use of arbitrary symbols and rule-governed combinations of those symbols - can be understood/produced, does not depend on modality Communication - Answer The exchange of information, ideas, ...

What are the similarities and differences between speech, language, and communication? - Answer What are the three main properties of language and why are these important for language development? - Answer Social Tool: language serves as the code for transmission between people Rule Governed: the arrangement of symbols in a language is non-arbitrary, or language users have share rule systems that allow them to create messages that can be understood by others Generative: language is a produ...