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Chomsky's mechanism that allows children to develop language skills is called?

Sentence level structure of language

What is the ideal number of utterances for a langauge sample?

Which type of gesture emerges before a child's first word?

1. The exchange of information, ideas or feelings and requires a message, sender and receiver.

Handing off an object to a communicative partner is an example of this type of gesture:

this is used to compare a child's performance to typical development

The basic shared grammar rules that all human language share is called

The expression of language with sounds

When a child uses a word or knowledge to figure out unfamiliar word or information is called

How we USE language

This stage is around 10 months. Gestures and vocalizations coupled with eye gaze?

The Zone of Proximal Development is

A system of rule-governed arbitrary symbols which convey meaning

Which group of children tend to show greater gesture usage?

This stage is around 12 months. First word appears.

This stage is 2-7 years of age, thinking is still egocentric

This theory emphasizes the role of conditioning and imitation.

This stage is birth to 8/10 months. Includes vegetative sounds, cooing and crying.

level of skill that a child has

upper limit of what a child can accomplish

Includes reading, listening, understanding

This stage is 7-11 years. They develop own thoughts and beliefs

Which of the following are areas in a case history?

Which theory states that language is an innate facutly?

This stage is birth-2. Child interacts with environment through play and touch

Which theory states that language is both biological and social?

the meaning of language

number of items that a child answered correctly on a test

giving a "high five" is an example of what type of gesture

Includes speaking, writing and signing

the smallest unit of language that expresses meaning

Which theory states that a child's mind develop and build new ideas as they age and experience the world around them?

This stage is 12- adulthood. Language growth is unlimited