Child Language Acquisition

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What is Skinner's approach to language acquisition
Behaviourist approach - The entirety of spoken behaviour can be explained by stimulus, response and reinforcement. For example a child says milk so the mother gives him milk.
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How did Chomsky disprove this theory (4 points)
Language learning takes place too quickly for this to happen, much of language seems to not be learnt, productivty (ability to make infinite sentences from finite means), doesn't explain the relationships in certain sentences (active/passive)
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What are the stages of CLA
Crying, cooing, babbling, 1st word, 2-3 word, multiword
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How does the crying stage play a part in CLA
Signalling something is wrong, breathing control, control vocal apparatus
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How does the cooing stage play a part in CLA
Starts around 2 months old, a pleasurable activity, good practice for forming lips/controlling tongue/other speech organs
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How does the babbling stage play a part in CLA
Allows the development of more complex patterns (syllables), child acquires sounds from the target language
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What is the difference between canonical and variegated babbling
Canonical - C1V1 + C1V1 (Mama, Dada) Varieagated - C1V1 + C2V2 (Gamo, Wado)
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What issues can occur during CLA
Segmentation - word boundaries, where does one word end and another begin in a sentence. Mapping problem - What is the link between a word and an object, which aspect is being referred to
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What experiment is aimed at the mapping problem
The Gavangi experiment
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How do children overcome the mapping problem
Mutual exclusivity assumption - The child would know the word rabbit, therefore if someone pointed at the rabbit and said ear, they would know that an object won't have two words associated with it, therefore the ear must be where the finger is point
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How do we know when the child is in the two word phrase
When it is evident they have learned the semantic format, and substitute different words in the slots. E.g. Doggie sit, mummy sit. The 2 word stage doesn't include rote learned phrases such as I dunno or all gone
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Give an example of morphemes learned early and morphemes learned late
Early - Present progressive, plural markings. Late - Contracted/uncontracted auxiliaries, contracted copulars
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What are the reasons some morphemes develop earlier than others
High frequency, consistent form, easy to segment from stem, clear function
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Give 5 features of child directed speech
Exaggerated prosody, higher use of questions, repetition of lexical terms, expansion, simpler syntax
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