Child Language Spoken

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Pre-Birth Stage
Child recognises mothers voice, differentiate between native language
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Pre- Verbal Stage
Crying for physical reason, parents attuned to different cries, exercise vocal cord, understand making noise gets attention
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Cooing
2 Months, tongue and back of mouth contact, distinct from crying
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Babbling
6 Months, vowel and consonant sound
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Reduplicated Babbling
simple, appears first, child repeats some sounds e.g Babababa
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Variegated Babbling
later, variation in consonant and vowel sounds, doesn't resemble words e.g Daba
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Holophrastic Stage
12-18 Months, first word, convey sentence worth in one word, convey meaning through word choice. 1st word 'mummy' 'daddy' or concrete noun
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Non- Verbal Communication
clarify intended meaning e.g gestures, facial expression
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Two- word stage
18 months, child puts 2 words together to convey meaning, meaning narrowed, understand grammar
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Vocabulary Spurt
18 months, cognitive change, know 300 words
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Telegraphic Stage
2, longer complete utterances, key content words, omit grammatical words
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Post- telegraphic Stage
3, Children's speech increasingly like adults, more accurate, grammatically
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Functions of Language
Halliday (1975)
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Instrumental
Language is used to fulfil a particular need 'I want'
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Regulatory
Used to tell someone to do something/ influence behaviour 'Wash hands'
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Interactional
Develop social relationships, ease process of interaction 'Love mummy'
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Personal
Express ideas, opinion and identity 'Jimmy good boy'
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Heuristic
language used to learn + explore environment, questions 'Why the bus stop here?'
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Imaginative
Create imaginary environment, play 'Jimmy shoot cowboy'
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Representational
language used to convey facts and information
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Rachel's First words- Katherine Nelson
Most common words - Noun 'mummy' 'daddy' least common modifiers 'More' 'My'
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Skinner + Behaviourism
all behaviour is result of the conditioning experienced than freedom of choice.
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Operant Conditioning
positive or negative response given by caregiver influences they way a child talks in the future
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Positive Reinforcement
Positive feedback given to child, encourages behaviour
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Negative Reinforcement
Lack of feedback or correction prevents child making same error
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Chomsky + Nativism
Language Acquisition Device, human brain has natural ability to learn language
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Universal Grammar
global capacity for children to learn language at similar rates/ways
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Virtuous Error
grammatical error, attempt to apply rules they recognise from around them
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Nativism Criticism
Doesn't give importance of caregiver of language development
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Genie
13 Years locked up, no social interaction, no speech, Couldn't acquire language beyond a certain point (basic) suggest critical period where child learns language not inate
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Crying for physical reason, parents attuned to different cries, exercise vocal cord, understand making noise gets attention

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Pre- Verbal Stage

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2 Months, tongue and back of mouth contact, distinct from crying

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Card 4

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6 Months, vowel and consonant sound

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Card 5

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simple, appears first, child repeats some sounds e.g Babababa

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