CSCD 3301 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Grammar, 18 Months, Wond
26 Jan 2016
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Word: smallest linguistic unit of meaning that can stand in isolation -- morphemes can"t always stand alone. Words can be classified by grammatical category (syntax) and semantics. Symbolic: it stands for something without being part of it. Arbitrary: the sounds /dog/ mean dog but there is nothing dog-like about the sounds. Referential: words stand for their referents, they don"t just accompany them (might say yikes when you see a cat but it refers to your emotional state not the cat) Steps of early lexical development: word comprehension, word processing, first words, from first words to 50 words, vocabularies at the 50-word mark, early word errors, the word spurt, two-word combinations and beyond. Word-level understanding as young as 5 months. Children"s receptive vocabularies are larger than their productive. 50 words of receptive vocab at 12 months -- routine words (bye bye/ night. Sensitive to age and vocabulary size (which differs among different kids .
