Chomsky
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- Created on: 13-01-23 13:19
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- Chomsky
- He believed that the ability to develop a signed or spoked language is genetically programmed into individuals
- He believed that all individuals have the ability to understand and use language, regardless of other abilities, and to become fluent in their first language by the age of five or six
- Stages of language development
- 0-3 months
- Makes mouth movements in response to parent
- Cries to ask for food or comfort
- 6-12 months
- Understands some words, such as 'byebye'
- Makes sounds such as 'gaga'
- 18 months
- Can say between six and ten words
- Can follow simple instructions
- 2-3 years
- Links words together, for example 'me car'
- Vocabulary increasing to approximately 200 words at 2 1/2
- 3-5 years
- Uses simple sentences
- Asks questions
- May use incorrect forms of words, for example 'I good'
- 8 years
- Speaks in complex sentences
- Can reason and explain
- 9-19 years
- Developing vocabulary
- Uses language to explore abstract ideas
- 0-3 months
- LAD (Language Acquisition Device)
- Encodes languages, grammar, and speech into the child's brain
- Crucial in order for children to learn language
- The critical period is identified as being 'infancy and childhood'
- Chomsky believes that language would not develop with LAD
- Children who have been exposed to more than one language from birth will be more fluent in both rather than later on in life
- Children are preprogramed to acquire language and it evolves naturally
- Chomsky states that children will still make pluralising errors
- Chomsky believes that his theory can be applies to all languages as they all contain nouns, verbs, constantans, and vowles
- Criticisms
- There is a lack of scientific evidence to support his theory
- He puts emphasis on grammar in sentence development rather than meaning
- Bruner argues that children require social interaction in order to develop language
- Bruner has a bigger influence
- His theory did not take into account
- Children with delayed language development
- Hearing or speech impairments
- Learning disabilities
- Autism
- Children with delayed language development
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