Language Development: From Listening to Speaking
© 2016
Contributors
- Amelia Bachleda, PhD
- Naja Ferjan Ramirez, PhD
- Jane Hu, PhD
- Jennifer Larson, PhD
- Sarah Roseberry Lytle, PhD
- Lily Shafer
- Elizabeth Zack, PhD
- Patricia K. Kuhl, PhD
- Andrew N. Meltzoff, PhD
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- Back-and-forth or contingent interactions
- exchanges where a caregiver times her responses to a child’s behavior
- Canonical babbling
- producing the same consonant and vowel over and over, such as dadada
- Infant-directed speech
- a special tone and style of speech used to talk to young children. It’s also called parentese
- Joint attention
- shared attention between social partners to an object or event
- Overextension
- using a word to describe more object categories than it actually represents
- Underextension
- failing to extend a word to other objects in the same category
- Vocabulary spurt
- rapid growth in word learning