Chapter 3 Flashcards
What are allomorphs
variations of morphemes ex boxes, leaves, and cats
What are semantic categories?
sorry words like causality, rejection, recurrence (concept of more)
What are deictic words?
words who’se referents change depending on who is speaking (this, here, that, come, go)
What are the functions of language?
labeling, protesting, and commenting
Halliday considered communicative intent for kids 9-18 months of age
imaginative: pretend to create an environment
heuristic: they organize and investigate environment “tell me why?”
Regulatory: children attempt to control the behaviors of others (do as I tell you to do)
Personal
informative
instrumental
interactive
What is the foundation to reading?
phonological awareness (Chs ability to detect and manipulate sounds and syllables)
Print Knowledge (children emergent knowledge about functions and forms of written language
Explain Behavioral Theory
teach verbal behaviors through stimulation, response and reinforcement
environment and social interaction are imp and that there is no innate language acquisition
Explain Nativist Theory
Children are born with the innate capacity to learn language
Language acquisition device – the env provides the universal rules of language
reinforcement is unnecessary
Explain Cognitive Theory
language devt is dependent on cognitive development
cognitive precursors are innate
explain Information processing theory
interested in HOW language is learned
organization, memory, transfer, attention, and discrimination
two broad categories: phonological processing and temporal auditory processing
explain Social interactionism
language develops because people are motivated to interact socially with others around them
-scaffolding
