Metalinguistics

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Metalinguistics

• Definition
• Its a Meta
• Metacognition
• Metalinguistics
• Theorists
• VanKleeck -
• Clark -
• Emergent-Literacy through VanKleeck

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Metalinguistics Importance 2

• Importance the pinnacle of language development
• ability to analyze language
• use higher forms
• oral language-literacy connection

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Aspects of Metalinguistics 3

• 1. Taxonomies
• VanKleeck-more literacy focused
• Clark more language focused
• 2. Comprises
• 1. Meta-components
• meta p,p,s,s
• 2. Performatives
• humor
• figurative language
• idioms proverbs
• metaphors similes
• 3. Emergent Literacy

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Clarks Taxonomy, 1.6-4yrs

• 1.6-2 years
• Monitors ones on-going utterances
• repair spontaneously
• practice sounds, words simple sentences
• adjust ones speech to different listeners
• 3-4 years
• Check the results of ones utterance
• check whether the listener has understood if not
  repair
• comment explicitly on own utterances and those of
  others
• correct others

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Clarks taxonomy, 3-4 yrs. cont.

• 3-4 years, continued
• test for reality
• decide whether a word or sentence works in
  furthering listener understanding
• attempt to learn language deliberately
• practice new sounds,words, sentences
• practice speech styles of different roles

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Clarks taxonomy, School-age

• School-age
• predict consequences of using particular forms
  (inflections, words, phrases sentences)
• apply appropriate inflections to new words
• judge utterances as appropriate for a speech
  listener or setting
• correct word order and wording in sentences
  judged as wrong

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Clarks Taxonomy, School Age finish

• reflect on the product of an utterance
• identify specific linguistic units
• explains why some sentences are possible and how
  to interpret them
• provide definitions of words, multiple meaning
  words, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms
• uses performatives

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Metalinguistic Taxonomies

• Clarks taxonomy
• Van Kleecks (more emergent literacy focused)
• Four Stages
• Stage I (Age 1.6-2)
• distinguishes Print from non-print
• knows how to interact with books right side up,
  turning from left to right
• Recognizes some printed symbols brand names
  (logographic)

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VanKleecks Taxonomy VK2

• Phase II ( Ages 2-6)
• ascertains word boundaries in spoken sentences
• ascertains word boundaries in printed words
• engages in word substitution play
• plays with the sounds of the language
• begins to talk about language parts of about
  talking ( speech acts)
• corrects own speech/language to help the listener
  understand the message (spontaneously or in
  response to the listener request)
• self-monitors own speech and makes changes to
  more closely approximate the adult model
  phonological first, lexical and semantic speech
  style last
• believes that a word is an integral part of the
  object to which it refers (word realism)
• inability to consider that one word could have
  different meanings

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Van Kleecks Taxonomy VK3

• Stage 3 (ages 6-10)
• Begins to take listener perspective and use
  language form to match
• Understands verbal humor involving linguistic
  ambiguity riddles
• Able to resolve ambiguity
• lexical first homophones
• deep structure (will you join me in a bowl of
  soup
• morphologic/phonologic (What do you have if you
  put three ducks in a box? A box of quackers)

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Van Kleeks Taxonomy VK4

• Able to understand word can have multiple
  meanings
• Able to resequence language elements
• (brown, the, fence fox, over, jumped, the)
• Able to segment syllables into phonemes
• Finds it difficult to appreciate Figurative Forms
  other than Idioms
• Stage IV (Ages 10
• Able to extend language meaning to figurative
  language ( hypothetical realms for metaphors,
  similes, parodies, analogies)
• Able to manipulate various speech styles to fit a
  variety of contexts and listeners

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Metalinguisticss Skills

• Metalinguistic Components
• 1. Meta-components
• meta p,p,s,s
• Metapragmatics Why its important to say
  Thank you
• Metaphonology phonemic awareness
• Metasemantics explaining what a word means,
  multiple meaning words, synonyms, antonyms,
  homonyms, multiple meaning words
• Metasyntax parts of speech, diagramming

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Metalinguistics Components

• 2. Performatives
• humor
• visual
• verbal
• inferential (deep structure)
• ambiguity
• figurative language
• idioms Strike a bargain, hop a plane, break a
  date
• metaphors Your teeth are like stars, they come
  out at night
• proverbs A penny saved, is a penny earned
• analogies A father is a man, a mother is a .
• Similes

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Metalinguistics Components

• -3. Emergent Literacy
• Text manipulation
• Discourse Competency
• Text Comprehension
• Phonologic Awareness

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METALINGUISTICS Summary

• 1. Definition
• 2. Taxonomies
• VanKleeck
• Clark
• 3. Components
• 1. Meta-components pragmatics, phonology,
  semantics, syntax
• 2. Performatives
• humor multiple meaning words
• figurative language
• idioms similes
• proverbs metaphors
• 3. Emergent Literacy

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