Theorists 0.0 / 5 ? English LanguageTheoristsASAll boards Created by: Disneyfan22Created on: 22-04-16 11:33 Michael Halliday Broke down children's early language functions into categories: Interactional; Heuristic; Regulatory, Imaginative; Personal; Representational. 1 of 14 Lev Vygotsky Cognitive theorist who emphasized the link between language and thought and the importance of language for imagination. 2 of 14 Noam Chomksy Nativist theorist who first suggested the idea of a Language Acquisitions Device. 3 of 14 Jean Piaget Psychologist who emphasised the link between linguistic and wider development. 4 of 14 Jerome Bruner Social interactionist who believes that an adult’s interaction with a child ‘scaffolds’ their development and who came up with the idea of LASS. 5 of 14 Eric Lenneberg Theorist who came up with the idea of the ‘Critical Period’. 6 of 14 Leslie Rescorla Suggested the idea of overextension and split it into three separate types: categorical, analogical and mismatch / predicate. 7 of 14 Katherine Nelson Categorised children’s early words into four categories: naming, social, interaction and modifying. 8 of 14 David Rigler Psychologist who controversially studied and cared for the famous ‘feral child’ Genie. 9 of 14 Jean Berko Conducted the ‘wug’ labelling experiment on children in the 1950s. 10 of 14 Jean Aitcheson Described three stages of children’s understanding of lexis and semantics: labelling, packaging and network building. 11 of 14 Roger Brown Noticed a temporary regression in children’s accurate use of verb tense, suffixes, etc. 12 of 14 Steven Pinker Describes a word as a “stretch of sound that expresses a concept”. 13 of 14 B F Skinner rPsychologist who applied his theories of behaviorism to linguistic development. 14 of 14
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