Language Acquisition

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Pragmatics
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CDS
Child directed Speech
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Features of CDS
Present tense, higher pitch, yes/no questioning, expansions/recasts, exaggerated pauses - gives turn taking cues, child's name rather than pronouns, concrete nouns, repetition & repeated sentence frames
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Halliday
Theory of functions of speech
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Halliday's Features
Personal, Regulatory, Interactional, Instrumental, Heuristic, Imaginative, Representational
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Dore
Theory of language functions
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Dore's language functions
Labelling, repeating, answering, requesting action, calling, greeting, protesting, practicing,
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Errors
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Deletion of unstressed syllables
Omitting opening syllable in polysyllabic words e.g. 'nana' for 'banana'
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Reduplication
Repeating a whole syllable e.g. 'dada', 'mama'
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Addition
Adding an extra vowel sound to the end of words - creates CVCV pattern e.g. doggie
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Deletion
Omitting first consonant in word e.g. do(g), cu(p)
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Assimilation
Changing one vowel or consonant sound for another e.g. 'gog' for 'dog'
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Consonant Cluster Reductions
Consonant clusters can be difficult to articulate, so children reduce them to smaller units e.g. 'pider' for 'spider'
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Stages Of Children's Grammatical Development
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One Word/Holophrastic
One word utterance - words behave like a short utterance e.g. 'duck', 'stuck' AGE= 12-18 months
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Two Word
Two words combined to create simple syntactical structures -> subject+verb/verb+object e.g. 'that cake', 'daddy coat' AGE= 18-24 months
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Telegraphic
3 or more words joined in increasingly accurate & complex orders ->subject+verb+object ->s+v+complement ->s+v+adverbial AGE= 24-36 months
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Post-Telegraphic
Increasing awareness of grammatical rules and irregularities -> using 'ran' instead of 'runned' AGE= 36+months
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Stages Of Phonological Development
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Vegetative
Sounds of discomfort or reflexive actions e.g. crying, coughing, burping, sucking AGE= 0-4months
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Cooing
Comfort sounds and vocal play using open mouthed vowel sounds e.g. grunts & sighs become vowel like 'coos' ->laughter starts ->hard consonants & vowels produced ->pitch (squeak+growls) and loudness (yells) practiced AGE= 4-7months
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Babbling
Repeated patterns of consonant and vowel sounds ->sounds link to own language ->reduplicated sounds (ba-ba) and non-reduplicated (variegated) such as 'agu' AGE= 6-12months
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Proto-Words
Word-like vocalisation not matching actual words - consistently for same meaning (sometimes called scribble talk) e.g. 'mmm' = give me that. Gestures i.e. pointing support verbal message AGE= 9-12 months
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Grammar
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Ursula Bellugi (1966)
Negation Stages
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1) Two Word Stage
NO or NOT used at beginning or end of a statement e.g. 'NOT eat food', 'NO yours'
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2) Telegraphic Stage
NO/NOT begins to be used within sentences DON'T/CAN'T appear e.g. 'Daddy NO eat my food', 'I CAN'T do it mummy'
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3) Telegraphic + Post-Telegraphic Stage
Negatives attatched to auxilliary verb + coupla verbs more accurately e.g. 'I DON'T eat my food daddy'
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Jean Burko (1958) - Wug Experiment
56 children aged 4-7 shown wug, 97% 6-7 year olds added plural 's' 75% total 's' - wugs
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Ursulla Bellugi
Pronoun Stages
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Stage One
Child uses his/her name in place of pronouns e.g. 'Freddie tired'
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Stage Two
I/Me pronouns used BUT interchangeably between subject/object e.g. 'Me tired daddy'
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Stage Three
I/Me used in the right places according to to subject/object usage e.g. 'I'm tired daddy', 'Give it to ME mummy'
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