Early Language Development

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Early Language Development

• Chapter 6

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Pragmatic Development

• Locutionary Stage
• Cause-effect
• Means-end
• Object permanence

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Expressing Intentions

• Dores Primitive Speech Acts
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• Hallidays Communicative
• Functions
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• Toddlers Intentions A Caution

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Developing Dialogue

• Topic Initiation
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• Presupposition
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• Turn-Taking

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Words

• First Words
• Characteristics
• First true word
• Sounds like

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First Lexicon

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• What is knowing a word?
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• Growth of lexicon
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• Classes of Words
• Nouns
• Action words
• Modifiers
• Personal
• Functional

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• Meanings of Words Nelson 1973
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• Referential
• Expressive

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Additional Classes of Words

• Substantive Bloom
  (1973)
• Relational
• Reflexive
• Existence
• Nonexistence
• Disappearance
• Recurrence
• Action relational
• Location relational
• Attribution relational

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• Overextensions and underextensions

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Transition from Single Words 

• Dummy forms
• Empty forms
• Replications
• Pseuophrases
• Successive single word utterances

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• Semantic-syntactic rules
• (case frames or autoclitic frames)
• agent action
• action object
• agent object
• demonstrative entity
• entity locative
• action locative
• possessor possession
• attribute entity
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Toddlers Tools

• Evocative utterances
• Hypothesis testing
• Interrogative utterances
• Selective imitation

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Caregivers Tools

• Models and motherese (CDS)
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• Prompts and Turnabouts
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• Contingency
• Imitations
• Expansions
• Extensions