Child language acquisition - spoken
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- Child language acquisition - spoken
- Phonology
- Theorists
- The Fis phenomenen
- Berko and Brown
- Children fail to say certain sounds, can recognise when someone else gets them wrong
- Intonation
- Alan Cruttenden
- Children don't understand intonation
- The Fis phenomenen
- Terminology
- Phoneme - smallest unit of sound
- Substitution - replacing consonants
- Consonant cluster reduction - removing consonants
- Assimilation - changes to a nearby sound
- Deletion - deleting sounds
- Reduplication - repeating sounds
- Metathesis - swapping sounds
- Phonemes
- Nasals
- m;n;ng
- Plosives
- t;k;p;d;g;b
- Fricatives
- f;th
- Affricatives
- ch;j
- Combines plosive and following fricative
- Final phonemes to develop
- ð;?
- Nasals
- Age of acquiring phonemes (months)
- (24) p, b, m, d, n, w, t
- (30) k, g, h, ?
- (36) f, s, j, l
- (42) t??,d??, v,z, ? , r
- (48+) ð, ?
- Theorists
- Lexis
- Terminology
- Hyponym - more specific word within a category eg. socks
- Hypernym - more general word, can have more specific words under it eg. clothes
- Holophrase - 1 word utterance that conveys meaning
- S/V/O/C/A
- Subject - responsible for carrying out verb process eg. I
- Verb - verb phrase eg. ate
- Object - affected by the action of the verb phrase eg. cake
- Complement - provides more info about a subject or object eg. she is ill
- Adverbial - circumstances of the action/event eg. I went to London
- Overextenson- too many unrelated things in a category eg. calling father and postman 'Daddy'
- Under extension - not enough in a category eg. only calling wall clock 'clock'
- Theorists
- Katherine Nelson
- Naming (buggy, tummy)
- Action (din-din, tinkle)
- Social (uh-oh, night night)
- Modifying - icky, yummy
- Jean Aitchison
- Packaging: Exploring labels + to what they apply - overextension occurs
- Network building: making connections between words, understanding similarities + opposites in meaning
- Katherine Nelson
- Stages
- Stages of developing words (Age by months:Number of words
- 24:200
- 12:50
- 36:2000
- Stages of learning words
- 1. Baby responds to words but is most dependent on context
- 2. After a few months - knows what words are for, acquisition of new words speeds up, capable of fast mapping
- 3. Age 3/4 - children re-organise ways they categorise words eg. can put things in more than 1 category at the same time
- Stages of developing words (Age by months:Number of words
- Terminology
- Grammar
- Theorists
- Micheal Halliday sentence functions
- Instrumental - fullfils a purpose
- Regulatory - influences behaviour of others
- Interactional - develop and maintain social relationships
- Personal - convey individual opinions, ideas and personal identity
- Represent-tational - convey facts and information
- Imaginative - create an imaginary world
- Heuristic - learn about the environment
- Micheal Halliday sentence functions
- Terminology
- Preffix - UNhappy
- Suffix - creatED, creatING
- Morpheme - 1 meaning = 1 morpheme eg. happy, 2 morphemes = 2 meanings eg. unhappy
- Free morpheme - makes sense on its own eg. happy
- Bound morpheme - doesn't make sense on its own, pre/suffixes eg. un/est
- Theorists
- Other theorists
- Chomsky - nativist
- Innate language
- Critical period
- Universal grammar
- LAD (language acquisition device) - all children have this that encodes major principles of language
- Virtuous errors
- Skinner
- Children develop language through interaction
- Imitating adults language/ dialect
- Vygotsky
- Language is a social construct + is learned socially
- Imaginative play - exploring adult themes
- Piaget
- Children explore world around them
- Childhood is important for shaping someone's future
- Chomsky - nativist
- Phonology
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