1. Chapter 3
Preschool Years

2. Verb forms Tense Plural Regularization
Uses regular tense endings correctly
Forms an internal rule
Overregularizes
Learns both regular & irregular & uses both
Plural
Uses singular correctly
Uses irregular correctly
Applies rule to all nouns
Flexible internal rules, memorizes irregular, uses correctly

3. Categories of thinking
Overextension –for all
Underextension – for one only

4. Running commentaries Practicing new language forms
Pleasure through play w/word sounds
Exploring vocal capacities
Reliving significant events
Creating dialogue-fit into social settings
Experimenting w/fantasy-creativity
Attending objectively to language
Facilitating motor behavior

5. Older Preschoolers (4-5)
Social conversation
Gaining attention-eye contact, touching, using catch phrases
Pausing & listening
Correcting himself
Maintaining attention by not pausing
Taking turns in conversation
Friendships

6. Inner speech (unspoken) Conventions of conversation
Group play
Verbally suggest play theme
Engage in verbal negotiation
Compromise
Argue
Become leader by using right words
Inner speech (unspoken)
Conventions of conversation

7. Relational words Speech & behavior Impact words
Space, size, time, number
Speech & behavior
Volume
Tone
Mimic “bad guy”
Echoing, baby talk
Silence
Friends, meet needs
Impact words
Name-calling, etc. (pragmatics)

8. Sound words Created words Word meaning Reality & nonsense
Language play (humor=incongruity)
Speech & intelligence

9. Common speech patterns
Rhyme
Self-chatter
Errors
Longer, more complex sentences
Articulation - omissions & substitutions
Transform questions
Stutter
Metalinguistic awareness
Nature as language as an object
Puns, metaphors, irony

10. Brain
4-12 3rd critical restructuring – keep or eliminate connections