CD 302 Test 1 review

Private Speech: A term for adults adapting their utterance complexity and vocal prosody for a young child.

a spontaneous language analysis often includes

Which action is an important indicator of readiness for spoken language?

Basic communicative functions at the one-word utterance stage can be called

Emblem gestures may be used to emphasize or exaggerate a point in a conversation or presentation.

Gestures are random movements.

Language/cognition is a domain that influences life-long development in children and adults

Pointing in combination with words occurs at least by 16 months of age.

Inferencing skills draw more on language comprehension than language expression.

Ritual request gestures develop within the age range of 10-12 months.

Illocution: A type of speech act that describes a listener interpreting non linguistic speech acts.

Private speech: Technique that allows a child to store information from conversation with an adult to use in the future.

Giving is an early developing deictic gesture.

Language is generative with infinite possibilities in what is said and understood.

communication whose meaning is primarily assigned by the hearer is called

young children may rely on the _________________ comprehension strategy instead of interpreting sequencing words

The term referring to children adding a new word to their vocabulary after just a few exposures to it.

What type of speech act refers to messages expressed in spoken language?

If a child does not meet expected gesture milestones, it may indicate a language delay.

Language is a static system.

Children from lower SES households receive significantly more adult input than children in middle-class households.

Vygotsky: The area between what a child can accomplish independently and what he can accomplish with scaffolding is:

the intention that an utterance conveys, the way we use our body language, read a face, appropriateness of an utterance

The sentence-level structure of language that marks relationships between words and ideas

The illocutionary stage is marked by

A child's language develops from the integration of form, content, and use, with social engagement and cognitive effort.

Children with cerebral palsy show greater gesture usage.

The first words that emerge around 12 months of age mark the beginning of the

Language is a rule-governed behavior.

When an infant starts waving bye bye after seeing an adult wave is using the leearning strategy called:

a rule-governed behavior that is complex system of symbols that is used in various modes for thought and communication

Term: when child uses their knowledge of part of the message to formulate their best guess about its linguistic meaning?

language comprehension is also called

A child who combines gestures and words to expand meaning will soon

Children with Down syndrome do not develop gesture use as part of language development.

Which kind of gesture conveys a meaning to be understood without the referent in sight?

This gesture seeks to gain adult interaction, make a request, or draw attention to something.

Piaget said there is a direct relationship between cognitive achievements and later linguistic attainments

Overextension may cause a child to call a horse a dog upon their first meeting of a horse.