CLA Speech Recap

What does CLA stand for?

• Child Language Age

• Child Language Acquisition

• Child Language Approach

What is holophrasis?

• Using a single word to represent a whole phrase/utterance

• Cooing noises

• Using the incorrect spelling

When does babbling take place?

• 12 - 18 months

• 3 - 4 years

• 4 - 6 months

• 6 - 12 months

Define overextension

• When a word is used to describe things with the same properties instead of a specific thing e.g. calling all round fruit an apple

• Breaking words in to pieces to pronounce them

• Using the word 'and'

• Changing the order of words in a sentence

Reduplicated babbling

• Repetition of a syllable to produce a 'word' e.g. choo-choo

• Changing the syllable during babbling

Assimiliation

• Adding extra vowels to the end of words e.g. bread = bared

• When one consonant/vowel becomes similar to another e.g. dog = dod / lorry = borry

Deletion / omission

• Parts of words are not produced e.g. 'nana' 'jamas' (banana / pyjamas)

• Repeating syllables in a word e.g. choo-choo

• Taking the voice out of final consonants

Two word stage

• Two-word combinations used in an order that resembles adult speech; grammar starts to be understood

• Baby produces phonemes in vowel & consonant combinations e.g. mama / gaga

• Holophrastic stage

Name the theorist: labelling, packaging, network building

• Halliday

• Aitchison

• Clark

• Rescorla

Name the theorist: categorical & analogical overextension, mismatch

• Rescorla

• Aitchison

• Mehler

• Clark