C.L.A. Key Terms

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  • C.L.A. Key Terms
    • Proto Words     (Made up words that a child may use to represent a word they can't pronounce)
      • eg. 'ray ray' means raisins and 'moo moo' means cow
    • Babbling
      • (One word and constant vowel, syllable used as a word.
        • eg. na = nana ma= mum    da = dad
    • Scaffolding
      • the support given by caregivers through modelling how speech ought to take place in order to help language development
    • Object Permeance
      • an understanding that objects continue to exist when they cannot be seen or touched
    • CDS Child Directed Speech
      • the various ways in which a caregiver (unconsciously) adapts their speech to aid a child in lang. development
    • Expansion
      • when a caregiver might develop the child's utterance to make it more grammatically complete
    • Recast
      • the grammatically incorrect utterance of the child is spoken back to the child but in the correct form
    • hypernym
      • a more generic term that is connected to more specific word choices that are all in the same semantic field eg. fruit
    • Virtuous errors
      • grammatical errors that are undestandable
    • Addition
      • phonological error, the child adds a vowel to make final position easier eg. dog becomes doggie
    • Framing
      • controlling the agenda of the conversation or making utterances that encourage a child to fill in a blank
    • Holophrase
      • a single word representing a more complex thought eg. 'juice' used to signify 'i want juice' and 'up' to signify 'i want to go up'
    • hyponym
      • a more specific word within a category or under a hypernym eg. banana, apple, cherry, strawberry, orange
    • Overextension
      • the use of a given word in a broader context or applying a word to a wider collection of objects eg. calling all round objects an apple

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