CSDS 285 Quiz #4 Ch. 9-10

Aspect

Dynamics of an event, usually controlled by the verb relative to the completion, repetition, or continuation of some event.

Stories

Fictionalized. There is an endless content variation. They have known and anticipated pattern or structure in which the main character must overcome some problem or challenge.

Account

Highly individualized spontaneous narratives in which children share their experiences (You know what?) and thus, are not reporting information that has been requested by an adult.

Tense

Marking of a verb, such as past or future, that relates the speech in the present to the event time or time when the event will (did) occur.

Epenthesis

Process of inserting a vowel sound where none is required. Ex: balack instead of black.

Decentration

Process of moving from 1 dimensional descriptions of entities / events to coordinated, multi - dimensional ones.

Metalinguistic

Refers to the use of language knowledge to talk about language.

Chunking

Systematically arranging information, most often into categories (names of animals, or items found in a supermarket) In general, the better the "chunking", the better the organization, storage, and retrieval of information. When learning knew vocabulary, the child attempts to associate it with what he/she already knows.

Recount

Tells about past experiences in which a child participated or observed or about which a child read and is usually requested by an adult.

Phrase

A group of words that functions as a single distinct syntactic unit that is less than a sentence and does not contain both the subject and the predicate.

Eventcast

A type of narrative that explains some current or anticipated event and may be used to direct others in imaginative play sequences.

Nonegocentrism

Ability to take another's perspective. Essential for doing well in school.