Child Language Acquisition - Theories
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- Child Language Acquisition - Speech theories
- Jean Aitchison (1987)
- Labelling
- Linking labels to the objects which they refer to and understanding things can be labelled.
- Packaging
- Exploring labels and seeing what they can apply to.
- Over/under-extension occurs to eventually understand a range of meanings.
- Exploring labels and seeing what they can apply to.
- Network Building
- Making connections between words and recognising similarities and differences in meanings.
- Labelling
- Katherine Nelson (1973)
- Identified 4 categories for first words
- Naming things/people (nouns)
- Actions/events (verbs)
- Describing/ modifying things
- Personal/social words.
- Identified 4 categories for first words
- B.F. Skinner (1957 - Behaviourist) Immitation and Reinforcement
- Operant conditioning
- The child imitates the speech of others
- When the child repeats a word successfully, they recieve positive reinforcement, encouraging them to repeat the action again.
- If the child receives negative reinforcement they are unlikely to repeat the action.
- Noam Chomsky (1965 - Innateness)
- Children have an innate ability to understand grammatical rules.
- He called this the Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
- Identified virtuous errors where children make grammatical errors but still understand the rules.
- Children have an innate ability to understand grammatical rules.
- Jean Piaget (Cognition theory)
- Cognitive development is the overriding influence of language acquisition.
- Identified Object Permanence
- A child's ability to understand that objects have an independent existence.
- When an object moves out of the child's sight, it ceases to exist.
- Begins in the first year but is not usually complete until about 18 months.
- Once children have learned object permanence, they begin to apply labels to these objects.
- Bruner, Vygotsky (Input theories)
- Emphasise the role of interaction in language acquisition
- A child's acquisition of language depends on the input made by parents and others.
- Parental interaction introduces the child to familiar conventions of conversation such as turn taking.
- Parents introduce new words by using familiar sentence structures.
- Jean Aitchison (1987)
- A child's ability to understand that objects have an independent existence.
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