Pragmatic and Semantic Development of Preschoolers

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Pragmatic and Semantic Development of Preschoolers

• McLaughlin, Chapter 7

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Preschoolers Pragmatic Development

• Conversations and Discourse
• Storytelling and Discourse

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Conversations

• Expanding Contexts
• Setting Events
• Private and socialized speech

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Play Behavior

• Symbolic play
• Levels of Play
• Solitary play
• Parallel play
• Cooperative play

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Dores Conversational Acts

• Dore created analytical classification of
  functions for conversational acts
• Requests, responses to requests,
• descriptions, statements,
• acknowledgments, organization devices,
• per formatives and miscellaneous

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Conversation

• Discourse is a series of successive utterances
  shared by at least two persons.
• Cohesion refers to the relatedness of successive
  utterances
• 1. Topic introduction
• 2. Turn taking

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Conversation Continued

• 3. Presupposition
• Anaphoric reference
• Deixis
• Awareness of listeners knowledge of context
• Grammatical ellipsis
• Ability to infer information about the listener
• Style shifting
• 4. Topic Maintenance
• Conversational repair

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Preschoolers Storytelling

• Five discourse genres
• Narratives
• Recounts
• Event cast
• Account
• Stories

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Narrative Development

• Contextualized and Decontextualized Language
• Narrative Levels
• Earliest stories are protonarrative or
  prenarratives
• Heaps
• Sequences or chaining
• Primitive narratives or centering

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Semantic Development

• Vocabulary Development
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• Fast and Extended Mapping
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• Lexical Learning Principles
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• Development of Relational Terms
• Dimensional words
• Color words
• Spatial words
• Kinship words
• Temporal words
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Semantic Relations

• Early prevalent semantic relations in early
  multi-word utterances (R. Brown)
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• Agent Action Object
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• Agent Action Locative
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• Agent Objective Locative
• Agent Action Object Locative

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