1. What is an infant’s speech perception ability and how does it relate to language development?
2. Explain and give a few examples of phonotactic regularities.
3. Explain the difference between perceptual categories and conceptual categories.
4. Why is an infant’s awareness of movement and understanding of the goals underlying action an important precursor for language development? Explain your answer.
5. Explain what jargon is and what role it plays in an infant’s language development.
6. Explain the difference between imperative pointing and declarative pointing.
7. Pretend you have a neighbor who is not producing 50 words by age 2. The child’s mom, knows you are taking this class and asks your opinion. Based on the information about late talkers in your text/lecture, what would tell the parent ? Include a description of late talkers and an explanation of why these children are a concern to parents and clinicians.