Child language development and aquisition 5.0 / 5 based on 4 ratings ? English LanguageChild language acquisitionA2/A-levelAQA Created by: annie1405Created on: 27-09-17 09:53 6321057149 Across 1. Noam Chomsky: Language is innate and were pre-programmed to acquire it, we posses an innate gramatical ability. Children have an inbuilt LAD (Language acquisition device). Theres a universal grammer that all humans build language from. (8) 4. BF - Skinner. Children learn language throught imitating their parents language which results in Positive or negative reinforcement. This is known as operant Conditioning (12) 6. When vocal chords vibrate is a voiced sound e.g. Z (6, 5) 9. Piaget - Langauge aquisition is a mental and emotional process and the linked to the childs cognitice developmeny. A child must have an understanding of a concept beofre tehy can verbalise it (9, 6) Down 2. 0-4 months, Sounds of discomfort or reflexice actions. Indiscriminative sounds such as laughing ans squeeling (10, 5) 3. BEHAVIOURISM: Copying another persons speech (9) 5. INTERACTIONAL THEORY: Language aquisition Support System - the system bruner called his system in response to Chomskys LAD (4) 6. NATIVISM: Understandable and logical mistakes that children made which reflect their language learning process at work e.g. adding ed onto the end or irregular past tense verbs. (8, 6) 7. Evidence that Chomsky is correct and supports nativism as it shows children dont only know words they've heard before. (3, 3, 4) 10. 9-12 months - Word like vocalisations not actually matching the adult target but used consistently for the same meaning. At this point gesture are also used for meaning (5, 5, 5)
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