English Language- Child language aqcuisition
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- Created on: 08-04-14 14:30
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- Child Language Acquisition terminology
- Stages
- Preverbal
- cooing
- babbling
- proto words
- holphrastic stage - one word stage
- holophrase
- gestalt expression
- two word stage
- syntax comes in
- 18-24 motnhs of age
- telegraphic stage
- 3-4 words
- vocabullary expands from 50-13000 words
- start to understand tenses
- use mainly lexical words and leave out grammatical words
- lexical words- nouns, adjectives, verbs
- grammatical words- determiners, auxiliary verbs, prepositions
- post telegraphic stage
- grammatical words start to appear
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- Preverbal
- Virtuous error- logical mistake that shows a child has understood a rule
- Overgeneralisation-applying a grammatical rule too widely- eg... runned (run)- overgeneralisation of the ed suffix
- Regression
- Gestalt expression- a child can't distinguish where one word ends. e.g "what's that" becomes "wassat"
- Overextension
- Analogical
- Similar function - scarf + cat are both soft
- categorical
- similar appearance
- Hypernym- the larger category (e.g- fruit)
- hyponym- the smaller term that fits within the hypernym (e.g- apple)
- mismatch +predicate statement
- Time or place
- Doesn't mean they don't understan the difference, but that the don't have the vocabulary
- Analogical
- Morphology
- morpheme- the smalles unit of meaning in a word
- bound morpheme- only has meaning when attached to a free morpheme
- free morpheme- can stand independently and have meaning
- infelctional morpology
- child learns to use bound morphemes to create words with different tenses (e.g- walked- child has learned "ed" suffix)
- Derivational morphology- child uses morphemes to create new words "incorrectly"
- Compounding- two words to make a new word (e.g- scary man (clown))
- conversion-uses a word as a different word class- "can you jam my toast"
- affixation- adds a suffix to a word to change its word class (it's very nighty "dark))
- mean length of utterance - average number of morphemes in a childs utterance
- morpheme- the smalles unit of meaning in a word
- Phonological development
- 7 pronunciation errors
- addition- dog->doggy
- deletion- cat -> ca
- consonant cluster reduction - frog -> fog
- deletion of unstressed syllables- banana -> nana
- assimilation doggie -> goggie
- substitution- rabbit -> wabbit
- reduplication- choochoo
- fricatives/stops
- Phoneme- smallest unit of sound in a language
- phonemic contraction- losing the phonemes not used in your language
- 7 pronunciation errors
- Pragmatics
- implication- what is meant
- inference- what is understood
- Halliday's taxonomy of language
- Instrumental- express needs
- regulatory- give instructions
- interactional- form relationships
- personal- express opinions, feeling +identity
- heuristic- gain knowledge (what's the tractor doing?)
- imaginative- tell jokes+stories
- representational- factts
- Stages
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