Child Acquisition Minor Theorists (still Important)

Question 1

What is crystals theory?

Answer 1

There are five stages of development:

• stage one where they make basic statements such as ‘daddy’s car.’
• stage two where they ask questions (usually in two word stage)
• stage three where they ask loads of different questions but in a specific tone (phonological improvement)
• stage four where they use complex sentence structures
• stage five is all practices above and being able to apply them to give and receive information.

Question 2

What is Nelson’s theory?

Answer 2

That children say things according to the situation in these 4 ways:

• naming things (mum, dad, cat, dog)
• actions/events (give, throw, stop.)
• social (hi, bye, yes no.)
• modification (dirty, clean.)

Question 3

What is Brown’s theory?

Answer 3

That children from different countries still make the same grammatical mistakes/relations in the two-word stage.