Discuss what you think would happen to a child’s language development if they had no contact with other people?
- Created by: Meg Fraser
- Created on: 04-01-17 12:21
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- Nature and nurture in language development
- Nurture
- Meshing and pseudo-dialogue - precursors to language development
- Controlled by adults so not possible without them
- Learning theories
- Adults respond to/reward attempts to talk - reinforcement
- Parents recite phrases for child to repeat - imitation
- The case of 'Genie'
- Abused since infancy, especially if she made any noise
- She was discovered at aged 13
- She couldn't talk but understood basic words
- Speech production limited to negative words like 'stop it'
- Language development mainly environmental as she could only say words she heard
- Speech production limited to negative words like 'stop it'
- Meshing and pseudo-dialogue - precursors to language development
- Nature
- Chomsky (1965)
- Innate ability to produce language
- Poverty of input - can produce previously unheard sentences
- Would be able to speak without listening to adults?
- Language acquisition device
- Mechanism containing rules of universal grammar
- Needs to be learnt but the basics are there
- Mechanism containing rules of universal grammar
- Brain lateralisation
- Areas in brain specifically for language e.g. broca's area for speech production
- We have the tools to use language
- Areas in brain specifically for language e.g. broca's area for speech production
- Chomsky (1965)
- Nurture
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