PSYCH 1X03 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Phoneme, 6 Years, Pragmatics
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The ability to discriminate between virtually all phonemes even before an infant learns language. Still-face procedure adult looks at an infant while maintain a neutral facial expression: 2 3-month-old infants will become distressed; shows that they have some sort of expectation about how face-to-face interactions should go. Cooing pre-linguistic behaviour; parents can practice conversational skills by cooing back, or vocally responding to them. Naming explosion (word spurt) when vocabulary expansion hits a rapid increase (~18 . Fast mapping children learn the meaning of a word following 1 2 encounters with it (~6 years). Expressive the words that children use to speak. Receptive the words that children understand, but do not necessarily use yet. Overextensions using a specific word for a broader set of related items; include both semantic and syntax errors. Underextensions a general term is used for a particular thing. Overextensions in production persist longer than overextensions in comprehension/
