English Language quiz

1. What did the behaviourist Skinner say?

When children hear examples or language they fit these into their (unconscious) mental model of how language works.
Language is social 'children learn to use language initially... to get what they want, to play games, to stay connected to those whom are dependent.
Children learn to speak by imitating their parents and being rewarded or punished according to the accuracy of their utterances
Langyage development goes hand in hand with the development of thinking and knowledge (cognitive development).

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using language to indicate a need they want satisfying.
The view that the comprehension of phonological patterns and the meanings they represent develop faster than the childs ability to say them
the theory that parents often respond to the truth in what their child is saying rather than correcting their grammatical mistakes
the theory that children whose mothers talk to them more have larger vocabularies

holophrastic stage, two word stage, telegraphic stage, post telegraphic stage
The sight voabulary/whole word stage, discrimination net stage, the phonological recoding stage, the orthographic stage
prepatory stage, consolidation stage, differentiation stage, integration stage
repeated epithet, assonance, aphorism/proverb, epithet as metaphor

that language is used to control the actions of others
that children use language to communicate factual information
that children use language to cross the boundary between reality and fantasty
that children use language to express feelings, and express growing perceptions of the self