Midterm Language Developement Practice

Communicating verbally. Involves quality, intonation, and rate.

Gestures, eye contact, expression, communicative distance, and more.

The exchange of ideas between at least 2 people. Consists of nonlinguistic and paralinguistic cues, and the speaker’s metalinguistic skills.

Cues include intonation, stress, speed of speech, pauses, and more.

Socially shared code to decipher and assign to different sounds. Described by its phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Largely dependent on culture.

Rules specifying word, phrase, and clause order; sentence organization; word classes; etc. How you can put words together to make sentences.

Rules concerning the different sounds involved in speech and how they’re sequenced/organized.

Rules specifying the internal organization of words. Like morphemes, etc.

Rules governing conversational interactions such as coherence and sequential organization.

Rules concerning the meaning/content of words and word combinations.

Match Approaches

Holistic Processing is...

Step-by-step processing is...

Visiospacial Skills are...

Oral, Written and Visual Language are...

Logical Reasoning is...

Linear Order Perception

Oral Movement is...

Recognition (including printed words) are...

Calculations

Comprehending complex linguistic and ideational material

Comprehending prosody and affect

Identifying Sounds

Keeping up with changing information

Metaphors/ Semantics

What area is responsible for verbalizing a message?

What area is responsible for analyzing input

Put the levels of language processing in order

Explain Growth vs. Development

Infancy Age range

Toddlerhood Age Range

Preschool Age Range

Early School Age Range

Middle Childhood Age Range

Match

Total number of morphemes/total number of utterances

The longest Utterance

The UMB should be 4 times the MLU

Check examples of words with only a free morpheme

Check examples of words of bound morphemes

What opportunity does play provide for language development?

Located in reticular formation, responsible for energy level and overall tone of cortex to aid processing and formulation.

located in posterior portion of cortex, controls information analysis, coding, and storage.

located in frontal lobe, responsible for formation of intentions and programs for behavior. Activates brain for regulation of attention and concentration. Necessary to activate motor behaviors.