Child Directed Speech 2

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  • Created on: 05-10-17 13:35
Operant Conditioning
The idea that either positive or negative reinforcement given by a caregiver can influence the way in which a child talks on future occasions.
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Positive Reinforcement
Positive encouragement from a caregiver.
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Negative Reinforcement
Negative feedback from a caregiver.
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Language Acquisition Device
The idea that we are born with an innate language learning capacity.
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Tabula Rasa
Latin for 'blank slate' which is what Skinner described children as.
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Universal Grammar
Coined by Chomsky - the notion that all human language has the same rules of grammar.
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Virtuous Errors
Grammatical errors that are understandable and logical through an incorrect assumption.
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Cognitive Development
A child's development of thinking and understanding.
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Language Acquisition Support System
System proposed by Bruner (i.e. the caregivers and other individuals who play a key role in the child's language development).
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Scaffolding
Support provided by caregivers through modelling how the child's speech should take place.
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Egocentric.
Thinking of only themselves.
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Object Permanence
An understanding that objects continue to exist even when they can't be seen or touched.
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More Knowledgeable Other
The person who might offer support to the child.
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Zone of Proximal Development
Describes the area between what a child can already do and which is beyond their reach.
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Usage Based Linguistics
A model that emphasises that language structure emerges from use in that linguistic patterns are formed and become grammatical constructions.
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Positive encouragement from a caregiver.

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Positive Reinforcement

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Negative feedback from a caregiver.

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Card 4

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The idea that we are born with an innate language learning capacity.

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Card 5

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Latin for 'blank slate' which is what Skinner described children as.

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