Acquistions Quiz 3 Preschool Language

Gestures

Toddlers rely on this to learn language before they can speak

Mirror Neurons

A type of visuomotor neurons activate when people perform actions and when they observe other people perform activities

Intelligible

The amount of speech understood by familiar and unfamiliar listeners

Phonological Processes

Young kids use this in order to simplify their words and vocabulary

Age of Mastery

The age by which most children produce sound in more adult like speech

Intonation

The prominence placed on various parts of sentences

Utterance

An uninterrupted chain of spoken language, may not meet the full sentence

Mean length of utterance (MLU)

A calculation of the number of morphemes per utterance used to estimate syntactic complexity of child

Grammatical morphemes

Small units of language added to allow plural, possesives, and past and present tense

Telegraphic speech

A simplified form of speech with simple word combos

Over extension

Children making errors in language

alphabetic knowledge

Children’s knowledge of the letters of the alphabet

Print awareness

understanding of text and its purpose

Phonological awareness

Awareness that sound makes speech and their ability to play with sounds

Decontextualized language

Relays in language itself in the construction of meaning, no context cues and doesn’t share background knowledge

Contextualized language

Grounded in context, relies on background knowledge and present on situational cues

Extended mapping

A complete understanding of the meaning of a word

Multi-syllabic word

A word that has more than one syllable

Derivational morpheme

Prefixes and suffixes are added to change meaning of word

Personal narrative

An individual shares a factual event

Fictional narrative

An individual shares an imaginary event

Discourse functions

Preschoolers more complex such as interpretive, logical, etc.