Dore’s Primitive Speech Acts – Flashcards

Communicative Purpose: Looks at caregiver, produces a word or prosodic ( intonation, expression, stress, and rhythm.) change, waits for response: Behavior: Child says "ball" in a manner indicating that the caregiver is being instructed to give him the ball."

Communicative Purpose: Rejects object/action Behavior: Child says "NO!" when an attempt is made to give him spinach

Communicative Purpose: Asks for information from caregiver Behavior: Child says, "doggie?" and waits for a caregiver to respond and confirm identification

Communicative Purpose: Identifies an object Behavior: Child points to mother's eye and says "eye"

Communicative Purpose: Responds to caregivers inquiry Behavior: Caregiver asks, "what's that?" while pointing to a toy dog, child says "doggie"

Communicative Purpose: acknowledges a caregiver upon entering a room behavior: Child says, "daddy" as he enters a room

Communicative Purpose: produces at least part of what is said by a caregiver behavior: dad hits his hand and says, "ouch" child says "ouch"

Communicative Purpose: Produces word with prosodic pattern without anyone in room behavior: child says ball while playing with a ball

Communicative Purpose: attemps to gain attention of caregiver Child says daddy in attempt to gain his attention