English Language Theorists

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Berko & Brown
Fis Phenomenon - A child who mispronounces the word 'fis' (fish) cannot understand what an adult means when they use 'fis' but can understand when the say 'fish'
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Katherine Nelson
Categorising First Words - Identifies four categories of first words; naming, actions or events, describing or modifying and personal or social words.
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Skinner
Imitation theory - Children copy adults and learn language through the positive or negative reinforcement they receive from the imitation
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Chomsky
Innateness/ Nativist theory - Humans are born with a pre-disposition to language, they have 'linguistic universals' and a LAD. They are equipped to discover the grammar of their language as they have innate grammar.
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Eve Clark
Over and Under extension theory - Children base over extensions on 1) the physical qualities of an object 2) features such as taste, sound, movement, shape and size
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Rescorla
Division of over extensions - She divided over extensions into 3 groups; categorical, analogical and mismatch statements
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Jean Aitchison
Stages of linguistic developments - labeling, packaging and network building
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Jean Piaget
Social Interactionalist theory -Linguistic development with an understanding of the concepts surrounding the words meanings, Speech development is linked to the development of the brain, sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete and formal operational
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Ursula Bellugi
Stages of negative formation - children find it difficult to use negatives correctly and learn forms of the negative in three stages; no - don't - am not
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David Crystal
Addition to negatives - When pragmatic competence is achieved, youngsters learn to copy parents use of words like 'maybe'
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Ursula Bellugi
Pronoun development - Pronouns are difficult to master and therefore children learn them in three stages
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Roger Brown
Morphemes are acquired in a particular order
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Jean Berko
Wugs - An imaginery creature called a 'wug' and asked children to say what more than one would be called, 75% of them said 'wugs' appylying Chomsky's theory
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Micheal Halliday
Hallidays taxonomy - Children acquire language in order to facilitate developments in life instrumental, regulatory etc. Pragmatic view unlike ...
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John Doore
Functions of language - Individual utterances rahter than the broad picture, labelling, answering repeating, practising
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Lev Vygotsky
Childrens play - Props or pivots are often used to support play, older children use their imagination. role play as adults exploing their envbiroment ' zone of proximal development' how adults and children work together
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Catherine Garvey
Pretend play - Children adopt rules and identities acting out story lines, inventing objects and settings. Practice social interaction and negotiation.
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Alison Clarke Stewart
CDS - children have a large vocabulary if their mothers talk to them alot
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Jerome Bruner
LASS - (language acquisition support system) ritualised activities such as a set meal and bed time are predictable so that children can learn. games such as peekaboo are included. Scaffolding is a key part to his theory
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Eric Lenneburg
Critical period - A set time in which kids should pick up language, he argues that id they didn't evolve language skills by the age of 5, full grammatical fluency would never be had
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Categorising First Words - Identifies four categories of first words; naming, actions or events, describing or modifying and personal or social words.

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Imitation theory - Children copy adults and learn language through the positive or negative reinforcement they receive from the imitation

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Innateness/ Nativist theory - Humans are born with a pre-disposition to language, they have 'linguistic universals' and a LAD. They are equipped to discover the grammar of their language as they have innate grammar.

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Over and Under extension theory - Children base over extensions on 1) the physical qualities of an object 2) features such as taste, sound, movement, shape and size

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