Child Language Acquisition - Theorists/Theory's

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Catherine Garvey's Sociodramatic play
play involves both social and dramatic elements with explicit rules. this starts around 4 years old and is lexically specific, holding adult forms
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Blooms 3 types of negative meaning
Non-existence, Rejection, Denial
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Clarke-Stewart theory on impact of mother's speech
Children whose mothers talk to them have larger vocabularies
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Kathering Nelson - correction
Children whose mothers correct them advance slower
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John Locke
the first 50 words are forced
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Behaviourist theory
main theorist - Skinner. children imitate adults and correct utterances are rewarded with praise
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Language can be categorised into how it is reinforced - Skinner
Echoic - repetition, (de-)Mands - requests/directives, (con-)Tacts - information, Interverbials - social force (thank you)
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John Dore's 8 speech functions
Labelling, repeating, answering, requesting an action, calling, greeting, protesting, practising
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Cognitive Theory
Piaget, children only acquire language when they are intellectually ready
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Eric Lenneburg
Language develops alongside motor and cognitive development. there is a specific amount of time children have to learn language
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Social interaction Theory 1
Bruner humans are social creatures and learn throguh interaction, LASS
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Social Interaction Theory 2
Vygotsky, humans develop tools for social interaction (speech), ZPD
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Leslie Rescorla, overextension
catagorical, analogical and mismatch statements
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Jean Aitchison Labelling Packaging and Network Building
Labelling, Packaging - exploring labels and what they apply to, Network Building - making connections between words
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Jean Aitchison's stages
one word, two word and telegraphic
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Katumba's suffixes
1)-ing, 2)-s (plural), 3)-s (possessive), 4)the/a (determiners), 5)-ed, 6)3rd person singular s, 7) auxiliary "to be"
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Cuttenden's Inflections, 3 stages
1) memorise individual words, 2) may apply wrong inflection rules to words, 3) correct inflections are learnt and used
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David crystal
Children will learn the pragmatic negative as they advance
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Halliday's functions of speech (4)
Instrumental -fulfill a need, Regulatory - influence others behaviour, Interactional - develop and maintain social relationships, Personal - convey individual ideas and opinions
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Halliday's functions of speech (3)
Representational- convey facts and information, Imaginative - create an imaginary world, Heuristic - learn about the surrounding environment
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Berko and Brown
Fis phenomenon, children think they are pronouncing the word correctly and can hear others incorrect utterances
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Piaget's stages of linguistic development
Sensorimotor - experience through senses and object permanence develops. Pre operational -language and motor skills develop and language is egocentric. Concrete Operational - child begins to think logically. Formal operational- abstract reasoning
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Baker and Freebody's spoken and written language
spoken does not take any physical space, written does. Written is also permanent and repeatable in its exact form
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Barclay's early stages of writing
Scribbling, mock-handwriting, mock-letters, conventional letters
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Kroll's stages of writing
Prepatory- learning physical skill of writing, Consolidation- writing reflects speech, Differentiation- aware of the differences between writing and speech, Integration- a "personal voice" develops and writing becomes more controlled
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Rothery's categories for evaluating children's writing
Observe/comment- the writer makes a comment and evaluates it. Recount- Chronological recall of events. Report- a factual and objective description of events/things. Narrative- a story genre where the scene is set for events to occur and be resolved
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Britton's modals of writing
Expressive- resembles speech and uses 1st person perspective. Poetic - encouraged because of its creative manner and develops gradually. Transactional- style of academic essays
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