linguistics 0.0 / 5 ? Child DevelopmentOtherNone Created by: EveCreated on: 05-05-13 18:36 Lexical Constraints Whole object assumption. Mutual exclusivity. Taxonomic assumption. - This is a nativist theory 1 of 8 Whole object assumption Assuming new word refers to the whole object. Lung/trachea experiment. 2 of 8 Mutual exclusivity 1 object, 1 word. Lung/trachea experiment 3 of 8 Taxonomic assumption Categories from known words. Police car + police man vs car. Children associate police car with car rather than police man. 4 of 8 Types of words in early vocabularies Mainly nouns. Objects in the environment of the child. Routine and social words 5 of 8 "Wug" test Testing understanding of morpho-phonological rules. Applying rules to novel words e.g. phonological realisation of English plural 's' 6 of 8 Clark's "woodstock" test "This toy is called woodstock" *uses toy to hit child* "stop woodstocking me" - creativity 7 of 8 Symbols vs Signals Tomasello's theory. Symbols change minds. Signals change behaviour. Humans use symbols. Animals use signals 8 of 8
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