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Developmental psycholinguistics:
The examination of how infants and
children acquire the ability to
comprehend and speak their mother
tongue.
Autonomic
The part of the nervous system that
automatically controls the body
functions necessary for life, and
thus areas of the brain not directly
responsible for language and
speech.
Autonomic
Iconic
One-to-one relationship between signs and
their referents (e.g. lowering the pitch of your
voice on ‘deep’ when you describe someone
by saying he ‘speaks in deep voice’).
For example, the hungrier a baby becomes,
the louder and the longer the crying will be.
Iconic
Sings which have a random and
arbitary relationship with their
referents (e.g. ‘sun’ is a small word
but a tiny object; micro-organism is
a large word but a tiny object.
Symbolic
Symbolic
Cooing
In contrast to crying, infants at this
early stage of oral production
express ‘coo’ of contentment which
are precursors to babbling.
Cooing
© Capital Community College
Emerging during the second six
months of a baby’s life, this stage of
language production is the first
indication that an infant is actually
learning sound in its mother tongue.
Babbling
Strings of consonant-vowel syllable
clusters produced by infants.
Babbling
An infant’s initial attempts to
produce syllables, usually beginning
at the age of about six months.
Marginal Babbling
Marginal Babbling
The repetition of syllables by
infants beginning at about eight
months of age which first shows
that they are acquiring distinct
features of the mother tongue, e.g.
Chines babies begin to babble with
tones.
Canonical babbling
Canonical babbling
Segmental phonemes
Vowels and consonants: sounds
which are relatively easy to
divide into individual units of
sound.
Segmental phonemes
Suprasegmental
Feature of speech beyond the
individual sound such as pitch,
stress, rhythm, and intonation.
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  • 1. © Capital Community College Developmental psycholinguistics: The examination of how infants and children acquire the ability to comprehend and speak their mother tongue.
  • 2. Autonomic The part of the nervous system that automatically controls the body functions necessary for life, and thus areas of the brain not directly responsible for language and speech.
  • 4. Iconic One-to-one relationship between signs and their referents (e.g. lowering the pitch of your voice on ‘deep’ when you describe someone by saying he ‘speaks in deep voice’). For example, the hungrier a baby becomes, the louder and the longer the crying will be.
  • 6. Sings which have a random and arbitary relationship with their referents (e.g. ‘sun’ is a small word but a tiny object; micro-organism is a large word but a tiny object. Symbolic
  • 8. Cooing In contrast to crying, infants at this early stage of oral production express ‘coo’ of contentment which are precursors to babbling.
  • 10. © Capital Community College Emerging during the second six months of a baby’s life, this stage of language production is the first indication that an infant is actually learning sound in its mother tongue. Babbling Strings of consonant-vowel syllable clusters produced by infants.
  • 12. An infant’s initial attempts to produce syllables, usually beginning at the age of about six months. Marginal Babbling
  • 14. The repetition of syllables by infants beginning at about eight months of age which first shows that they are acquiring distinct features of the mother tongue, e.g. Chines babies begin to babble with tones. Canonical babbling
  • 16. Segmental phonemes Vowels and consonants: sounds which are relatively easy to divide into individual units of sound.
  • 18. Suprasegmental Feature of speech beyond the individual sound such as pitch, stress, rhythm, and intonation.