Child Language Acquisition

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When a child first starts experimenting with a large number of different sounds. This is called Phonemic...
Expansion
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After a child has experimented with different sounds, they only keep the ones that apply to their language. This is called Phonemic...
Contraction
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When a child uses just one word to give a variety of meanings. e.g. 'Dummy' could mean 'give me my dummy' or 'where is my dummy'
Holophrase
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The first 150 words of a child tend to be...
Nouns
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Sounds that are created when the airflow is blocked for a brief time e.g. p, t, k, b, d, g
Plosives
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Sounds that are made when the airflow is only partially blocked and air moves through the mouth e.g. f, v
Fricatives
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When a child omitts the final consonant in words
Deletion
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When a child substitutes one sound for another
Substitution
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When a child adds an extra vowel sound to the end of words
Addition
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When a child repeats a whole syllable
Reduplication
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Two theorists who conducted the 'fis' experiment
Berko and Brown
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The stage at when a child is using three or more words
Telegraphic
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This theorist conducted an expriment using football to see if children could pick up on intonation
Cruttenden
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Berko conducted an experiment that showed children understood how to apply the rule of plurals. It used an imaginary creature called a _____.
Wug
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When a child applies rules they have learnt incorrectly e.g. wented
Overgeneralisation
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A speech theorist who has catagorised seven functions of children's language
Halliday
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According to Halliday, when a child asks questions
Heuristic
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According to Halliday, when a child passes on information
Representational
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The way adults speak to children
Child Directed Speech
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Behaviourist theorist who believes human behaviour can be conditioned
Skinner
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Theory that children can only use language structures when they understand the concepts behind them
Cognitive
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After a child has experimented with different sounds, they only keep the ones that apply to their language. This is called Phonemic...

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Contraction

Card 3

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When a child uses just one word to give a variety of meanings. e.g. 'Dummy' could mean 'give me my dummy' or 'where is my dummy'

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Card 4

Front

The first 150 words of a child tend to be...

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Card 5

Front

Sounds that are created when the airflow is blocked for a brief time e.g. p, t, k, b, d, g

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