Language functions are greater than the sum of
their developmental patterns of language
structures.
Semantic relationships
one of the earliest functions of language is to tell others
about what the child understands about his or her own
relationship to the environment
Problems with acquiring basic
semantic relationships
A child who cannot receive the sensory input of spoken
patterns and a child who is not able to turn the
perceptual patterns into concepts may not develop the
concepts easily and therefore will have difficulty
acquiring language functions
Extended semantic relationships
baby begins to use these language functions in other
ways. The baby grows into a child who is still acquiring a
plethora of sensory patterns and is organizing these
patterns into lots of meanings
social intentions
when the chield greeting, rejecting, denying,
existing, negating, and requesting other people
preparational cognition
The child is learning more about how to
relate to others (social development) as well
as about how he or she thinks about play
(cognitive development) than the child is
learning sentence structures.
expanded language fuctions
probably the most important social and cognitive developments
acquired by a child learning to think critically and problem solve