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What children must learn - ANS ✔✔Individual sounds of the language
The words in their language
how to change from singular to plural
how words fit tg to form a grammatical sentence
order of the words matter
Language - ANS ✔✔a system of symbols
morphemes - ANS ✔✔smallest unit of language that carry meaning
referent - ANS ✔✔aspect of world that a word is referring to
higher level language skills - ANS ✔✔reflect cognitive acts like reasoning, planning, and problem
solving
modularity - ANS ✔✔how the mind is organized with in structures of brain
-domain specific
domain general-memory and reasoning
Language (code) - ANS ✔✔speech, sign, written language
speech - ANS ✔✔people use it to convey a message
respiration, phonation, resonation and articulation
,physical act
Cerebral Palsy - ANS ✔✔speech disorder, cannot produce intelligible speech. intact language
system. may need to use sign language
Locked in syndrome - ANS ✔✔fully aware, but fully paralyzed
Wernickes Aphasia - ANS ✔✔they sound fine but what they say makes no sense (speech intact)
Symbolic communication - ANS ✔✔child is sender, mother is receiver
relationship between a word and the entity referring to.
Pre intentional communication - ANS ✔✔intent, but referent isn't clear and meaning must be
guessed (baby crying)
Intentional communication - ANS ✔✔clear from context
baby reaching for a bottle
Paralinguistic feedback - ANS ✔✔pitch, loudness providing feedback
the sender and receiver need to prevent conversational breakdowns
instrumental - ANS ✔✔asking for something
regulatory - ANS ✔✔direct others
interactional - ANS ✔✔talking with others
, personal - ANS ✔✔express state of mind
heuristic - ANS ✔✔find out info
imaginative - ANS ✔✔tell stories and role play
informative - ANS ✔✔provide a description
Form - ANS ✔✔how linguistic info is arranged to convey content
words have difference requirements on their forms to construct grammatical sentence
Content - ANS ✔✔meaning of words
lexicon - ANS ✔✔our mental dictionary
use - ANS ✔✔how people use language to fit their personal needs
can be regulatory, informative
Phonology - ANS ✔✔rules governing the way we make sounds
phonemes - ANS ✔✔smallest unit of sound that signals a different meaning
allophone - ANS ✔✔variations on a phoneme sound (P sound is Pat vs Spat)
Morphology - ANS ✔✔organization of word parts (cat vs cats)