spoken language acquisition theories
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- Spoken Child Language Acquisition theories
- DeCasper and Spence, 1986
- found babies **** their dummies more when their mothers read them the same story they had read aloud during pregnancy
- Mehler et al, 1988
- 4 day old French babies increased ****ing rate on a dummy when they heard French as opposed to Italian or English
- Fitzpatrick, 2002
- heartrate of an unborn baby slowed when it heard its mothers voice
- Petitto and Holowka, 2002
- most babbling came from right side of mouth, which is controlled by left side brain. Left side of brain is responsible for speech production
- Katherine Nelson, 1973
- investigated data concerning the 50 words which children learned and identified 4 categories
- Naming, Actions / Events, Describing / Modifying, Personal / Social
- Findings - 60% of a child's first words were nouns, verbs were the 2nd largest group, 3rd were modifiers, personal / social words made up about 8% of the sample
- investigated data concerning the 50 words which children learned and identified 4 categories
- Bloom, 2004
- argues that supposed noun bias in early children's vocabulary merely reflects relative frequency of nouns in language.
- nouns outnumber verbs 5:1 in most dictionaries
- argues that supposed noun bias in early children's vocabulary merely reflects relative frequency of nouns in language.
- Jean Aitchison, 1997
- suggests that at about 18 months child will realise every object, person or place has a word / label attached to it and therefore will develop a naming insight
- followed by a 'Naming Explosion' where children rapidly develop new vocab to fill gaps in lexical knowledge
- suggests that at about 18 months child will realise every object, person or place has a word / label attached to it and therefore will develop a naming insight
- Brown, 1973
- noted most two-word utterances fit into a common set of patterns
- a doer + another being what is done
- an action + a thing being acted upon
- an object + its qualities
- noted most two-word utterances fit into a common set of patterns
- Braine, 1963
- noted at two-word stage children use patterns of 2 word utterances that seem to revolve around certain key words.
- called this a 'Pivot Schema' . 'Pivot' words combined with what he called 'Slots'
- noted at two-word stage children use patterns of 2 word utterances that seem to revolve around certain key words.
- DeCasper and Spence, 1986
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