Exam 9: Language Development

Children who frequently substitute one sound for another (for example, using ph for th) might be diagnosed with a

When his mother points out a window at a cat and says "Look, Sam! There goes a feline!" Sam assumes 'feline" to mean the

Parents can differentiate the __________ of their infant's cries.

When children can learn a new word, sometimes with only one exposure, it is called

The idea that adults will modify that way they talk with young children until the child can understand and respond is associated with the theory of

Children will say things that they have never heard before, such as "I goed outside to play". This production of unique sentences is best explained by

Syntactic bootstrapping allows children to

Children all around the world learn to use nouns before they learn to use verbs.

Children who are diagnosed with dyslexia show neurological differences, demonstrated in that they have

The term used to describe how adults and children change the way they speak to infants and young children is

In dialogic reading, asking the child to describe what is happening in a picture in the book is an example of a ________ prompt.

Sam is not very good at following conversational rules. It is difficult to have a conversation with him because he talks out of turn and keeps changing the topic of the conversation. Sam has a problem with

Define emergent literacy and describe ways that parents and caregivers can support emergent literacy in young children.

When children assume that there is one (and only one) name for an object, they are engaging in

A _____________ is the smallest unit that has meaning in a language.

When Dan is putting together a puzzle, his father can hear him talking through the process to himself. This is an example of

Throughout our life, our receptive language

Researchers have found that children use certain principles or constraints to figure out what words mean and how to use them. Describe three of these principles.

One explanation for the success of dialogic reading is that it is based on the concept of

Three four-year-olds are sitting at a table coloring. One says, "I have the red crayon." The second one says "I'm making a blue bird." The third one says, "I like coloring." How would Piaget and Vygotsky each explain what is going on?