CORE VOCABULARY OF SOME 200 WORDS
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Bruce R. Baker / Katya Hill / Richard Devylder
http://www.csun.edu/~hfdss006/conf/2000/proceedings/0259Baker.htm
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"[...]
Let's take a look at another sentence. "I went to the museum yesterday
and saw a dinosaur." There are ten words in this sentence. Two of them
are context specific - museum and dinosaur. Eight of them are core
words. However, which of these words would appeal to an augmentative
communication system vocabulary manager? Museum and dinosaur would be
considered the most powerful or novel words because pointing to graphics
illustrating these words or speaking these words on a voice output
system would enable the conversational partner to fill in the blanks.
The envisioned Conversation would feature an augmented communicator who
would first say or point to "museum." The conversational partner would
say "Oh, you went to a museum. Did you have a good time?" The augmented
communicator would reply by uttering or pointing to "dinosaur." The
conversational partner would then say "You saw the dinosaur. Was it
interesting to see a dinosaur?"
The benign vision portrayed by the preceding interaction could,
however, have gone in just the opposite way. The conversation partner
could have said, "Museum?! You went there yesterday. I am not going to
get another trip together for you. Boy, you guys, give an inch and you
take a mile. You don't appreciate anything we do. Your attitude makes me
sick." Folks, this is language reality. How could the augmented
communicator dig him or herself out of the hole brought about in the
second imaginary interaction? Personal autonomy is best effected by
control of core vocabulary.
If an augmented communicator had control of core vocabulary, he or
she could have said, "I went somewhere yesterday. It was fun. We saw old
things." The conversational partner might reply, "I know. Who do you
think organized it? I'm glad you had a good time. I'll organize some
more trips for you guys, if you liked that one."
Which is easier to do? Organize and teach an effective structure for
200 core words and their grammatical morphemes or the near random cast
of extended vocabulary that float through every individual's life? In
our opinion, it is core vocabulary that liberates. The fact that the
same core vocabulary is used across all environments gives one in
control of core vocabulary functionality across environments. Although
topics change, core vocabulary is consistent. [...]"
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CORE VOCABULARY IS THE SAME ACROSS ENVIRONMENTSBruce R. Baker / Katya Hill / Richard Devylder
http://www.csun.edu/~hfdss006/conf/2000/proceedings/0259Baker.htm
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