Child Language Acquisition: Key Theories

1. What is the second stage of Aitchison's stages of semantic development? (9)
2. Who devised an order in which in inflections are learned? (10)
5. Which theorist looked at the importance of 'Peek-a-Boo' in pragmatic development? (8)
8. What was Kroll's third Spelling Stage? (11)

2. Which type of Rescorla's categories of Overextension is this an example of: 'apple' for all round fruit? (11)
3. Which theorist teamed up with Teberosky and found that many children expect people's names to be written proportional to their size or age? (8)
4. Who devised the Functions of children's language? (8)
7. Who worked with Sachs in the study of Jim, the hearing child of deaf parents? (4)
9. Who worked with Brown on the Fis Phenomenon? (5)
10. What was Kroll's first Spelling Stage? (11)

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