First Language Acquisition

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  • Created on: 22-09-19 12:54

1. what is statistical learning?

  • one item has one word for children. they do not like synonyms!
  • children's ability to extract statistical regularities from the world around them to learn about their environment.
  • a style of teaching aimed to optimise learning
  • when children acquire the meaning of numbers
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2. what does performance (production) mean?

  • understanding the language
  • innate language knowledge
  • outcome on the surface
  • underlying knowledge

3. what is the saliency principle?

  • the more salient a child's speech the easier they are for adults to comprehend
  • children have to make words more salient to use them
  • its easier for children to recognise some forms over others (those which are more salient!)
  • children have to learn to control their saliva before they begin speech

4. what does competence(comprehension) mean?

  • underlying knowledge
  • outcome on the surface
  • language use
  • abstract productions

5. what is blocking?

  • when children are cognitively prevented from being able to speak
  • when children structure sentences much like building a tower from blocks
  • a morphological word form cannot surface because there is already a more appropriate word form
  • when children piece together morphological words like building blocks

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