Acquisition Theorists

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Katherine Nelson
Holophrastic stage. The most common first words - related to the child's surroundings.
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Roger Brown
Pivot-grammar stage. Agent+Action. Action+Affected. Agent+Affected. Action+Location. Entity+Location. Possessor+Possession. Entity+Attribute. Nomination. Recurrence. Negation.
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Halliday
Functions of speech. Instrumental - basic needs. Regulatory - to control others. Interactional - to create relationships. Personal - express feelings, opinions, preferences.
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Halliday cont.
Heuristic - questions, to gain knowledge. Imaginative - create things for play, songs/stories etc. Representational - give information or facts.
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Noam Chomsky
LAD (Language Acquisition Device) - gives children the ability to create new sentences. This created virtuous errors due to creating different tenses and adding affixes incorrectly.
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Lenneberg
Said there is a critical period for learning language (around puberty) and that the LAD needs to be turned on by this time.
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B. F. Skinner
Operant Conditioning - children will learn language through praise and discipline. He also believed that children simply imitate language - which doesn't explain virtuous errors.
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Jean Berko-Gleason
Created the 'Wug test' - the creature (Wug) was used to test children's grammatical ability to add affixes to words.
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Bruner
LASS (Language Acquisition Support System) - caregivers support linguistic development in social situations, by interacting and encouraging the child to respond. This then teaches children to take an active role in social situations.
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David Crystal
Different phonemes will be acquired at different times as some are easier to pronounce than others.
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Jean Aitchison
Different levels of speech are acquired at different ages. 8mnth - intonation. 1yr - 1 word utterances. 18mnth - 2 word utterances. 2yr - word inflections. 2.25yr - questions/negatives. 3yr - telegraphic stage. 10yr - acquired language fully.
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Pivot-grammar stage. Agent+Action. Action+Affected. Agent+Affected. Action+Location. Entity+Location. Possessor+Possession. Entity+Attribute. Nomination. Recurrence. Negation.

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Roger Brown

Card 3

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Functions of speech. Instrumental - basic needs. Regulatory - to control others. Interactional - to create relationships. Personal - express feelings, opinions, preferences.

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Heuristic - questions, to gain knowledge. Imaginative - create things for play, songs/stories etc. Representational - give information or facts.

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Card 5

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LAD (Language Acquisition Device) - gives children the ability to create new sentences. This created virtuous errors due to creating different tenses and adding affixes incorrectly.

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