Language acquisition theories

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who proposed the imitation theory?
B F skinner
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what theory did Noam Chomsky come up with?
innateness
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what did Chomsky believe every child had?
LAD
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who developed the cognitive approach?
Jean Piaget
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what is it called when a child can only grasp the concept of something if it is their immediate surroundings?
egocentric
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who said that there is a language acquisition support system?
Bruner
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who came up with the critical period hypothesis?
Lenneburg
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who developed the socio-cultural theory?
Vygotsky
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What two features of speech did Vygotsky say were key for language development?
private speech and zpd
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who said there was seven functions of child's language?
Halliday
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who came up with the fis phenomenon?
Berko and Brown
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who put children's first words into five categories?
Nelson
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who said that there was two types of overextension?
Rescorla
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what are the two proposed types of overextension?
categorical and analogical
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who said there was three development processes?
aitchison
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who said that inflections are learnt in three stages?
Cruttenden
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