Child Language Acquisition

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What is the first stage of pre-verbal development and at what age does this stage happen?
VEGETATIVE STAGE:occurs at 0-4months.Basic biological noises that reflect biological occurrences such as reflexive noises(crying due to hunger , pain or discomfort) or vegetative noises such as (breathing , eating and swallowing)
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What is the second stage of the pre-verbal development stages what age does this stage happen?
COOING STAGE:occurs at 4-7 months.Features comfort sounds and vocal play using open-mouthed vowel sounds.
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What is the third stage of the pre-verbal development stages what age does this stage happen?
BABBLING STAGE:occurs at 6-12 months.Features repeated patterns of consonant and vowel sounds.
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What is the fourth stage of the pre-verbal development stages what age does this stage happen?
PROTO-WORDS:occurs at 9-12 months.Features word-like vocalisations , not mathcing the actuly worbs but used consistently for the same meaning(sometimes called scribble talk)e.g using 'mmm' to mean 'give me that' with gestures such as pointing.
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Name all of the four stages of pre-verbal development
VEGETATIVE:COOING:BABBLING:PROTO-WORDS
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What is the first stage of the lexical and grammatical stages of development?
HOLOPHRASTIC/ONE WORD STAGE:occurs at 12-18 months.Whe the child uses single word utterances such as 'mummy'.Sometimes more than one word is used but is understood to the child as one word 'allgone'
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What is the second stage of the lexical and grammatical stages of development?
TWO-WORD STAGE:occurs at 18-24 months.Begin to use two words in conjunction with each other e.g 'dog running'
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What is the third stage of the lexical and grammatical stages of development?
TELEGRAPHIC STAGE:occurs 24-36 months.start using 3-4 word combinations e.g 'dog is running'at this stage children still omit functional words such as auxiliary verbs.
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What is the fourth stage of the lexical and grammatical stages of development?
POST-TELEGRAPHIC STAGE:occurs at 36+ months.more complex utterances.
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What is overextension?
when a word is given a broader and general meaning than it should have.e.g using the word daddy to refer to childrens fathers but also applying it to all other men.
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What 3 groups did Leslie Rescorla divide overetension into?
CATEGORICAL:apple used for all round fruits, ANALOGICAL:ball used for a round fruit MISMATCH:'duck' when looking at an empty pond.
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What is underextenstion?
When a word is given a narrower meaning than it has.e.g children naming their family pet 'the dog' but not applying it to other dogs.
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what is a hypernyms?
broader meaning words belonging to a catergory e.g clothes
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What is a hyponyms?
specific word e.g socks , shoes , jeans
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What is a virtuous error?
mistakes children make within grammatical development e.g 'i runned' instead of ' i ran'
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What is an overgeneralisation?
adding 's' on the end of words to make them plural but on irregular words e.g mices , foots.
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What is deletion when talking about phonological errors?
it is the elimination of final consonants e.g do(g)
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What is substitution when talking about phonological errors?
systematic replacement of one sound with another that is easier to articulate e.g 'pip' for 'ship'
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What is addition when talking about phonological errors?
It is adding an extra vowel sound to the end of a word e.g doggie
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What is consonant cluster reduction when talking about phonological erros?
'pider' for 'spider'
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What is deletion of unstressed syllables when talking about phonological development?
'nana' for 'banana'
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What is Jean Berko's 'fis' phenonomeon?
-child:a fis -adult:is this your fis? -child:no/ -child:a fis -adult:is this your fish? - child:yes,my fis
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What does Katherine nelson say?
That the first words developed by children are concrete nouns , also that if you correct childrens language you exhibit it it is much better to accep them
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What does kuhl say ?
babies turn towards adults who speak in sing song voices , rather than noram conversation
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What does Eva Clark say?
common adjectives such as nice and big are more frequent in first words than spatial adjectives wide/narrow/thick and thin.
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What does Ursula Bellugi say?
NEGATION:uses 'no' or 'not' at the beginning/end of sentences(no wear shoes) , moves 'no'/'not' inside sentences(i no want it)
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What else does Ursula Bellugi say?
PRONOUNS:uses own name(tom play) , i/me used in different parts of the sentence (i play toy/me do that)
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What does Vygotsky say?
young children use props in play but when older tend to use their imagination , 'zone of proximal development'-adults and children work together to move children towards independence,knowledge and competence ,'scaffolding'-being transferred from a-c
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What is the behaviourist theory?and who says it?
children learn language through imitation and positive reinforement, children repeat what they hear and caregivers reward children with praise-REINFORCEMENT
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What is the innate theory ? and who says it?
children have an innate ability to extract the rules underlying language from words they hear around them from the LAD
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What is the cognitive theory and who says it ?
Language acquisition is more to do with mental process , language and cognitive development go hand in hand
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What is egocentric?
when a child cant mentally process the concept of something that exists outside their immediate surroundings
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What is object permanance?
at 18 months a child realises that objects will exist even if they can not see it , at this time a childs vocab sharply increases
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What is the input theory and who says it ?
language is social and interactional, it is only through interactions with adults that children learn the social pragmatics of language use , for language to develop properly there has to be a linguistic interaction with caregivers.
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What is the LASS?
1.GAINING ATTENTION:getting the babies attention on the picture 2.QUERY:asking what the object is on the picture 3.LABEL:telling what the object in the picture is 4.FEEDBACK:repsonding to the utterance.
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