Is there a critical period for learning language?
Define critical period. Relate the true story of Genie, the modern-day “wild child.” How does her experience with language support the critical period theory? 187-9 Behavioral and environmental influences on language. Define motherese. [This type of simplified speech is also used by adults such as fathers, other caregivers, and older children to talk to younger children. It is not used only by mothers, and is, in fact, now being referred to as parentese.] Define other strategies adults use to enhance the child’s acquisition of language such as echoing and labeling. 190 Know several recommendations that linguist [a language expert] Naomi Baron gives for parents and other caregivers to promote their infants and toddlers language development. 189-93 How language develops. Know the developmental changes in language that take place in infancy. [Also use language section of Lab Pack.] Define active, spoken or productive vocabulary, and define passive or receptive vocabulary. Define holophras
