midterm assignment

Even as an adult, you are still learning words. And you still use many of the same strategies to learn words that young children use! To see how you do these, get a highly technical text on an unfamiliar topic ideally one with pictures. Depending on your major, you might try a medical text, an engineering text, or even a cookbook! Read through a few pages and identify 10 words that you dont know. See how much you can figure out about those words using strategies discussed in Chapter 5 of your textbook, including the apparent intentions of the texts author, the syntactic sentence frames the words are used in, surrounding pictures, and contrasting elements. Link the strategies you are using to figure out the words meanings to those described in the book. When youre done, look up the meanings of the words in a dictionary and see how well you did. Create a PowerPoint of the the ten words you did not know, the strategies you used to help you figure out the meaning of the words, and a discussion of whether or not these strategies helped you accurately figure out the meaning of the words. Finally, choose any theory of language development discussed in Units 1-4 and apply the theory to explain why you were successful or unsuccessful in determining the meaning of some or all of the 10 words you chose.

• Babbling DriftVegetative SoundsDistinctive FeaturePhones CooingProtowordsPhonemes Vocal PlayPhonological IdiomsAllophonesExpansion StagePhonological ProcessesPhonotactic KnowledgeCanonical FormsMarginal BabblingVoicingCanonicalArticulatory ComplexityArticulatory PhoneticsReduplicatedFunctional LoadBabblingPhonological AwarenessPlace of ArticulationPhonetic FeaturesNonreduplicated Variegated, BabblingConnectionist ModelsManner of ArticulationFricativesStopsProsodyJargonMental LexiconWord Spurt WordWhole-Object AssumptionReferential Language StyleMutual-exclusivity AssumptionReferenceExpressive Language StylePragmatic PrinciplesContext-bound Word Use Phonological MemoryPrinciple of ConventionalityReferential Words Speech Segmentation Principle of ContrastNominalsIndeterminancy of Word Meaning Syntactic Bootstrapping HypothesisNatural Partitions HypothesisMapping ProblemWord ExtensionRelational Relativity HypothesisFast Mapping Taxonomic AssumptionsLexical PrinciplesUnderextensionsSemantic OrganizationLexical OrganizationsLexical ConstraintsOverextensions