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Title: Pragmatic and Semantic Development of Preschoolers


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Pragmatic and Semantic Development of Preschoolers
  • McLaughlin, Chapter 7

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Preschoolers Pragmatic Development
  • Conversations and Discourse
  • Storytelling and Discourse

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Conversations
  • Expanding Contexts
  • Setting Events
  • Private and socialized speech

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Play Behavior
  • Symbolic play
  • Levels of Play
  • Solitary play
  • Parallel play
  • Cooperative play

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Dores Conversational Acts
  • Dore created analytical classification of
    functions for conversational acts
  • Requests, responses to requests,
  • descriptions, statements,
  • acknowledgments, organization devices,
  • per formatives and miscellaneous

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Conversation
  • Discourse is a series of successive utterances
    shared by at least two persons.
  • Cohesion refers to the relatedness of successive
    utterances
  • 1. Topic introduction
  • 2. Turn taking

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Conversation Continued
  • 3. Presupposition
  • Anaphoric reference
  • Deixis
  • Awareness of listeners knowledge of context
  • Grammatical ellipsis
  • Ability to infer information about the listener
  • Style shifting
  • 4. Topic Maintenance
  • Conversational repair

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Preschoolers Storytelling
  • Five discourse genres
  • Narratives
  • Recounts
  • Event cast
  • Account
  • Stories

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Narrative Development
  • Contextualized and Decontextualized Language
  • Narrative Levels
  • Earliest stories are protonarrative or
    prenarratives
  • Heaps
  • Sequences or chaining
  • Primitive narratives or centering

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Semantic Development
  • Vocabulary Development
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  • Fast and Extended Mapping
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  • Lexical Learning Principles
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  • Development of Relational Terms
  • Dimensional words
  • Color words
  • Spatial words
  • Kinship words
  • Temporal words
  •  

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Semantic Relations
  • Early prevalent semantic relations in early
    multi-word utterances (R. Brown)
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  • Agent Action Object
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  • Agent Action Locative
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  • Agent Objective Locative
  • Agent Action Object Locative

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