Exam 2: Normal Language Development a Review

"ba da na" is an example of ___________ babbling.

When do metalinguistic skills develop?

Deictic words are:

List the factors associated with a child's environments that promote literacy.

Prior to class, assign a debate question and ask all students to prepare both sides of the question. On the day of the debate, divide the class into groups of 6-8 students. Assign each group as "pro" or "con" and allow 15 minutes for the groups to prepare. Follow a traditional debate structure. Suggested topic: "The school system is responsible for literacy development."

The development of two-word utterances is not haphazard. List three ways in which it is developed?

Having discussed both Bloom's (1970) and Brown's (1973) semantic relations in class, provide students with the following word list and ask them to combine these words in as many different two-word combinations as they can. Then have students exchange lists with another pair of students. Ask each student to classify each two-word combination against each possible semantic relation. Word list: doggie, ball, no, more, nigh-nigh, gone, here, my, mommy, juice.

The final stage of speech act development is known as the:

In semantic development, what is meant by over-extension and under-extension?

Which two aspects of oral language appear to be related to the development of metalinguistic skills?

What role does shared storybook reading play in literacy development? What cultural and socio-economic factors might be involved?

What are some of the federal education initiatives that have been put into place in the last ten years to improve literacy development? What role does the speech-language pathologist play in those initiatives? Learning Activities

Provide students with the checklist based on Table 2.2. Show students an appropriate video of a child in the one-word stage and ask them to write down any utterances the child has which correspond to each type of Lahey's (1988) relational words. Discuss student examples in class.

Provide students with two language transcripts from a child in the three-four word utterance range. Use the first language sample to demonstrate calculating both mean number of words and mean length of utterance (MLU). Discuss the value of each calculation. Ask students to calculate MLU on the second language sample. Discuss their results in class.

Present students with a number of story books for preschoolers which are well known to your students (e.g., Goldilocks, Winnie the Pooh, or The Cat in the Hat). Ask students to determine which narrative structure each story contains and to identify the story elements contained therein.

Describe some of the devices used by children to maintain topic in conversation.

Define a phonological process.

What defines a true first word?

What are the accompanying motor, cognitive and social developments that occur during the pre-linguistic period? What environmental factors might come in to play? What impact does this have on speech development in the infant?

In semantic development, "mama" applying to all women is an example of: