Child Language Aquisition Theory
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- Created on: 04-02-19 17:35
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- CLD Theorists
- Nativism
- Noam Chomsky
- Humans have an inbuilt capability to acquire language
- children often experience the same stages of development at similar paces and often make their own rules for language or overgeneralise
- LAD
- The capacity to acquire language is innate within humans
- The human brain is pre-programmed to acquire grammatical structures
- Human languages share many similarities, which he calls Universal Grammar
- Noam Chomsky
- Behaviourism
- Overextension
- Eve Clark
- Found that children overextend the physical qualities of others and features such as shape, sound, taste, movement, size and textures
- Studied first words
- Leslie Rescorla
- Catergorical Overextension - the name of one member of a category is extended to all members of the category - eg. all fruit called an 'apple'
- Analogical Overextension - a word for one object is used for one in a different category - eg. 'ball' used for all round fruit
- Mismatch Statements - one-word sentences which appear quite abstract / a child makes a statement about one object in relation to another (eg. saying 'duck' when looking at an empty pond)
- Fis Phenomenon
- Eve Clark
- Berko- Wug Test
- provided evidence for the belief that children overgeneralise
- "this is a wug. Now there is another one. There are two of them. There are two____."
- Three-quarters of 4-5 year olds surveyed formed the regular plural 'Wugs'.
- Bruner- LASS
- the child's interaction with the adults around them
- rituals and games like the alphabet song or 'Peek-a-Boo' are educational
- Scaffolding
- Overextension
- Cognitivism- Piaget
- language acquisition is part of a wider development of understanding
- he argued that children will only acquire more complex forms when their intellectual development can cope so trying to teach things before they are ready will be unsuccesful
- 'Discovery Learning'
- CDS
- repetition
- present tense
- fewer verbs/modifiers
- concrete nouns
- Functions of Speech
- Halliday
- Instrumental - to fulfil a need (eg. want juice)
- Regulatory-to influence the behaviour of others (eg. pick up)
- Interactional - to build social relationships (eg. Love you)
- Personal - conveying opinions, ideas and personal identity (eg. Me like Charlie and Lola)
- Representational - facts and information (eg. it cold)
- Imaginative - creating an imaginary world (eg. me mum you dad)
- Heuristic - to learn about their environment (eg. what's that?)
- John Dore
- Labelling
- Repeating
- Answering
- Requesting Action
- Calling
- Greeting
- Protesting
- Practising
- Halliday
- Stages of language development
- 1) Vegetative
- 2) Cooing
- 3) Babbling
- 4) Proto-Words
- 5) Holophrasistic
- 6) Two word
- 7) Telegraphic
- 8) Post telegraphic
- Nativism
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