Studyguide Language Acquisition Final - part 3 extra info from semester

Foundations of language are established in _________________ years.

preschool

What are steps of speech chain:

1) speaker sorts through thoughts and decides what to say, creates message

2) message is put into language form

3) neural impulses sent to speech mechanism, trigger speech movements

4) movements of speech mechanism produce sound waves

5) sound waves are picked up by listener's hearing mechanism

6) listener's brain processes the sound into neural pattern, understanding the message sent by the speaker

What is fast mapping?

development of quick associations

Three steps - auditory cue, activation of memory, and word is comprehended - are part of slow or fast mapping?

fast mapping

__________ ___________ is the process of expanding and fine-tuning word meanings, requires experience with the word in multiple contexts over time

slow mapping

What is Free vs bound morpheme?

free morpheme can stand alone and hold meaning, bound morpheme cannot (prefixes and suffixes)

______________ is content, meaning, and VOCABULARY

semantics

_____________ is social skills, interactions with others, conversations

pragmatics

______________ is sentence structure, GRAMMAR

syntax

_______________ is structure of words - morpheme (free/bound)

morphology

_____________ is individual SOUNDS, how they can be put together

phonology

Why are brown's stages important? why are they important to consider?

Browns stages are a set of developmental stages that describe how young children's grammar develops over time. They are important to consider because they give us a general timeline for how children's grammatical skills should normally develop and let us know what to expect at different ages. They also help us evaluate the increasing development in each domain of language - content (semantics), form (phonology, morphology, syntax), use (pragmatics)