Communication Development - The First 4 Years

Stimulus response sequence

________: if the infant signals, the caregiver will respond.

Females

________ tend to be early with language milestone and males tend to be early with motor milestones.

Articulation

________: Rapid and coordinated movements of the tongue, teeth, lips and palate to produce speech sounds.

approximant phonemes

Stops, nasals, and ________ predominate consonants of English in babys vocalizations.

Jargon

________: long strings of sound with adult- like patterns.

Phonological processes

________: children reduce and simplify words to forms that they are able to say.

Vocal folds

________: where speech sounds originate)

vocal tract

The ________ is the nasal cavity, mouth, and pharynx /throat.

consonant vowel

Babbling may begin with a(n) ________ structure.

Caregivers

________ talk to newborns /infants as if the babies understand.

Resonation

________: Modification of the vibratory pattern of the laryngeal tone through changes in the size and configuration of the vocal tract.

Echolalic stage

________: babies can repeat what they hear.

phonation

Sounds contain ________ or vocal fold vibration at the larynx.

Joint attention

________: shared focus of 2 or more people on the same object.

pitch of caregivers

Babies imitate the tone & ________.

oral cavity

Stops: the sound stops in the ________ (pa, ba, ka, etc .)

infants attention

To maintain ________, the caregiver exaggerate facial expression, voice, and vocalizes more often.

Nasals

________: the sound goes through the nasal cavity (mm, nn, etc .)

Non crying sounds

________ are more important in speech development.

vocal folds

Crying helps the baby modify breathing patterns and get used to air flow across the ________.

Phonation

________: voicing or producing sounds of speech.

Caregivers

________ are very important in the formation of communication.

Stimulus-response sequence

if the infant signals, the caregiver will respond

Joint attention

shared focus of 2 or more people on the same object

vocal folds

where speech sounds originate)

phonation

voicing or producing sounds of speech

Resonation

Modification of the vibratory pattern of the laryngeal tone through changes in the size and configuration of the vocal tract

Articulation

Rapid and coordinated movements of the tongue, teeth, lips and palate to produce speech sounds

Stops

the sound stops in the oral cavity (pa, ba, ka, etc.)

Nasals

the sound goes through the nasal cavity (mm, nn, etc.)

Approximate phonemes

similar phonemes to english (wa, etc.)

Echolalic stage

babies can repeat what they hear

variegated babbling

"ma ba ga"

Jargon

long strings of sound with adult-like patterns

Example

"mommy eat", "eat cookie" etc

Phonological processes

children reduce and simplify words to forms that they are able to say

Final Consonant Deletion

reducing the consonant-vowel-consonant structure of most words to a more familiar consonant-vowel structure

Pragmatics

language use in social contexts

Semantics

vocabulary knowledge & use

Syntax

grammar

Morphology

order of words

Toddler

"No cookie"

2-3-ish

"Doggie no eat"

Preschool

"mommy cant catch me"