Language Development in Infants and Toddlers: Key Terms and Techniques, Quizzes of Land Development

Definitions for various terms related to language development in infants and toddlers, including their language capacities, expressive and receptive language, morphemes and phonemes, prosody, pragmatics, semantics, syntax, and lexicon. It also discusses how gender affects language development and offers techniques for encouraging communication and speech in both infants and toddlers.

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TERM 1
Babies Language Capacities
DEFINITION 1
*can discriminate speech and sound from birth *are
motivated to attend to and learn language *are dependent
on early language experience to create an auditory map in
the brain
TERM 2
Expressive Language
DEFINITION 2
-communicating through signs or symbols
TERM 3
Morphemes
DEFINITION 3
smallest meaningful unit of a word
TERM 4
Phonemes
DEFINITION 4
-individual sound unit
TERM 5
Prosody
DEFINITION 5
vocal intonations, tone, rhythm, tempo, pace
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Babies Language Capacities

*can discriminate speech and sound from birth *are

motivated to attend to and learn language *are dependent

on early language experience to create an auditory map in

the brain

TERM 2

Expressive Language

DEFINITION 2

-communicating through signs or symbols

TERM 3

Morphemes

DEFINITION 3

smallest meaningful unit of a word

TERM 4

Phonemes

DEFINITION 4

-individual sound unit

TERM 5

Prosody

DEFINITION 5

vocal intonations, tone, rhythm, tempo, pace

Pragmatics

Social features of laguage

TERM 7

Receptive Language

DEFINITION 7

listening to and comprehending language

TERM 8

Semantics

DEFINITION 8

meanings

TERM 9

Syntax

DEFINITION 9

Rules

TERM 10

Lexicon

DEFINITION 10

all words in given language