Child language Mindmap
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- CHILD LANGUAGE
- THEORIES
- Nativist
- Noam Chomsky
- Innate ability to learn language
- Inbuilt capacity to learn (LAD)
- Impressive speed of language aquisition
- Need input to develop pragmatic understanding
- Behaviourist
- Language is learnt through imitation
- B.F.Skinner
- Reinforcement is used through rewards
- Imitation plays a key role
- Infinite number of sentences
- Cognitive
- Children are active learners
- Cannot be taught before they are ready
- Social Interactionist
- Bruner
- Language Acquisition Support System
- Pragmatics and conversation skills learn through adult interaction
- Vygotsky
- Zone of proximal development
- Scaffolding to support development
- Bruner
- Nativist
- FEATURES
- Deletion
- Omitting the final consonant
- Do(g)
- Substitution
- Substituting one sound for another
- 'Pip' for 'Ship'
- Addition
- Adding an extra vowel sound to the ends of words
- 'Doggie'
- Assimilation
- Changing one consonant for a vowel
- 'Gog' for 'Dog'
- Reduplication
- Repeating a whole syllable
- 'Dada'
- Deletion
- STAGES
- Holophrasic
- One word, random utterances
- Age : 9-18 months
- Usually a noun
- 'Mum'
- 'Drink'
- 'Bottle'
- Two Word
- 'Mini-sentences with simple semantic relations
- 'More cereal'
- Age : 18-24 months
- 'Mini-sentences with simple semantic relations
- Telegraphic
- Three or more words with increasingly complex syntax and lexis
- 'Mummy get milk'
- Vocab increases from 50 words to 3,000
- Age : 24-30 months
- Three or more words with increasingly complex syntax and lexis
- Post Telegraphic
- Increasing awareness of rules and structure
- 'Mummy and Daddy'
- 'I want drink but not bottle'
- Age : 30+
- Increasing awareness of rules and structure
- Holophrasic
- THEORIES
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