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Ch 6 - Lang-Learning & Teaching Processes and Young Children
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Communication
Undergraduate 2
10/06/2011

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Selective Imitation
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Toddler language-learning strategy in which the child imitates those language features that he or she is in the process of learning. Toddlers do not imitate randomly.
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Request for Clarification
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Request from listener for restatement of or additional information on some unclear utterances of the speaker
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Contingent Query
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Request for clarification such as What? or Huh?
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Extension
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Adults semantically related comment on a topic established by a child. For example, when a child says, Doggie eat, and adult might reply, Yes, the doggie is hungry.
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Reformulation
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Adult recasting of a child utterance that makes it more grammatically correct, adds new information, or changes the form.
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Entrenchment
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Repetitively doing an action successfully so that it becomes habitual.
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Expansion
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An adult provides a more mature version of a child's utterance that preserves the word order of the original child utterance. For example, when a child says, Doggie eat, an adult might reply, The doggie is eating.
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Interrogative Utterances
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Toddlers language-learning strategy in which the child attempts to learn the name of an entity by asking What that? or Wassat? Not to be confused with adult-like interrogative sentences, which are more varied (what, where, who , why, how, when)
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Motherese
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Style of talking used most oftern by white middle-class American mothers when addressing their 18-24 month old toddlers
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Bootstrapping
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Process of learning language in which the child uses what he or she knows to decode more mature language. For example, the child may use semantic knowledge to aid in decoding and learning syntax
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Pattern-Finding
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Finding common threads in unrelated information, such as seeking underlying rules for language
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Turnabout
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Intention-reading
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Functionally Based Distributional Analysis
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Process by which children form linguistic categories, such as nouns and verbs
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Hypothersis-Testing Utterances
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Toddler language-learning strategy in which the child seeks confirmation of the names of an entity by naming it with rising intonation, thus posing a yes/no question
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Preemption
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The notion that there is a reason ehind a person's choice of language related to the speaker's specific communication intention
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Formula
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Memorized verbal routine or unanalyzed chunk of language often used in everyday conversation
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Schematization And Analogy
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Process by which children create abstract representations for concrete pieces of language
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Working memory
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Short term memory that holds words/sentences in memory while one's brain processes the information contained in it; working memory changes as a child's language grows
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Evocative Utterances
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Toddle language-learning strategy in which the child names an entity and waits for adult evaluative feedback as to the correctness of the name or label
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