Child directed speech, Children need slow, exaggeration, intonation, high frequency, repetition and simple syntax to process language
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Vygotsky
Believed that social and cultural contexts are important in a child's language development. Children needs a caregiver in order to interact. A child talking to themselves indicates a step forward in their mental development.
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Bruner
Language development needs input from others. Linguistic interaction with caregivers encourages the child to talk back
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Crystal
Imitation theory. Children learn through copying and imitating others.
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Brown
Questions theory. Stage 1- Sit me? Stage 2- Where sit? Stage 3- Where do i sit?
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Berko & Brown
'Fis' phonomenon - shows how children reject adults mimicry. The perception of phonemes occures earlier than the ability to produce them.
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Halliday
Children's language has a range of different functions. 1) Regulatory -> To make requests or give orders 2) Instrumental -> To get something 3) Interactional -> To relate to others 4) Personal -> To convey a sense of personal identity
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Halliday continued
5) Heurisitc -> To find out abou the immediate environment 6) Imaginative -> To be creative through Language that relates to imaginative play - story telling, rhymes etc 7) Representational -> To convey information
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Mcneil
Language Acquistion is more to do with maturation, children seem unable to imitate adults grammatical constructions exactly
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Nelson
Catergorising first words. Specific objects, actions/events, modifiying things, personal/social, objects
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Cruttenden
Inflections are learnt in 3 stages - Stage 1 - I play outside Stage 2 - I drinked it stage 3- correct usage
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Cruttenden (2)
Children find it difficult to distinguish and understand intonation patterns
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Aitchison
3 Development processes - Packaging - understand a range of meanings, labelling - linking sounds to objects, network building - connections between words e.g big/small
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Bellugi
1. Negation theory.
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Card 2
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Believed that social and cultural contexts are important in a child's language development. Children needs a caregiver in order to interact. A child talking to themselves indicates a step forward in their mental development.
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Vygotsky
Card 3
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Language development needs input from others. Linguistic interaction with caregivers encourages the child to talk back
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Card 4
Front
Imitation theory. Children learn through copying and imitating others.
Back
Card 5
Front
Questions theory. Stage 1- Sit me? Stage 2- Where sit? Stage 3- Where do i sit?
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