SPLH 566 Exam Bundle

Speech - Answer The acoustic production of sounds, involves oral/motor components to create acoustic production - can be completely meaningless (i.e. babbling) Language - Answer The representation of concepts in our minds; a socially shared code/conventional system for representing concepts throu...

Semantic and syntactic bootstrapping - Answer semantic: using semantic info to learn syntax syntactic: using syntactic information to learn semantics how do motor skills affect speech production - Answer how do cognitive skills affect speech production - Answer how do social skills affec...

5 Social capabilities of preverbal infants (0-12 months old) - Answer 1. Newborn Preferences: faces, talking, mothers voice and language -we prove this w/ the Conditioned Sucking Paradigm 2. primary intersubjectivity: 0-6 mo: Interactions with faces aware that other social partners exist 3. joint...

how does the relationship of language and comprehension shift over time? - Answer comprehension precedes production, but they later become coalesced and are interrelated, becoming inseparable. Why do language and comprehension become less separable? - Answer they always rely on one another, it's...

Phonological Development - Answer Has a strong influence on the first words a child produces. Finding phonemes=building block for language. Earliest Acquired Sounds - Answer (a) Stops b, d, k, g (b) Nasals ng—later, m, n (c) Glides w, j Latest Acquired Sounds - Answer (a) Affricates ch, j...

Language - Answer a socially shared rule governed code or system for representing concepts through the use of symbols and rules that govern how they are combined Semantics: - Answer meaning/content Words as bricks-we use words to build sentences Word meaning Semantics features-aspects that cha...

How do cognition and language co-develop? - Answer comprehension and production become more and more inseparable comprehension proceeds production, but that production also boosts comprehension. Which comes first comprehension or production? What happens over time? - Answer Comprehension prece...

Object permanence developed, what happened with language? - Answer Certain words emerge in their language like "all gone" Means-ends behavior and problem solving developed, what happened with language? - Answer Certain words emerge in their language like "uh oh" Categorization emerged, wha...

Poverty of the Stimulus - Answer -term coined by Chomsky - since infants get a degraded input then they are unable to learn language simply through operant conditioning Chomsky's Beliefs - Answer Skinner's theory that children learn language through stimulus-response-reinforcement cannot be tr...

What are the similarities and differences between speech, language, and communication? - Answer What are the three main properties of language and why are these important for language development? - Answer Social Tool: language serves as the code for transmission between people Rule Governed: t...

Define language, describe the 5 components of language, and explain its relation to communication and speech. - Answer Language- shared code or system for representing concepts through use of symbols and rules that govern how they're combined/ words and how they're combined Speech- producing soun...

Presupposition - Answer (1) In general, a preschool child becomes increasingly adept at knowing what information to include, how to arrange it, and which particular lexical items and linguistic forms to use. Assumption about what listener knows. (2) Development: (a) 3 years: (i) children a...

For reduplicated babbling, how does a baby's language develop when they produce reiterative consonant-vowel clusters? What do babies develop by changing the pitch and rate of reiterative consonant-vowel clusters and why? Towards the end of 10 months, infants' babbling tends to sound more word-lik...

How does the relationship of language comprehension and production shift over development - Answer As children develop, their comprehension and production become increasingly less seperable and likewise each of the five components of language become harder to separate why do langauge comprehensio...