Child Lang Quiz Flashcards
Pragmatics?
Language in context
Prosodics?
Rhythm and intonation in language
What is CDS
Child Directed Speech
What is the blank slate theory
Aristotle: The idea that the human brain has no innateness.
Who believes in virtuous errors and what are they?
Noam Chomsky
When a child makes a mistake in their grammar through using known grammar rules.
Who are the cognitive theorists
Piaget and Bruner
Who conducted the Wug test and what did it show?
Jean Burko
Proves the innate theory where children had to modify the inflections of the unknown work “Wug” for it to make sense in a sentence.
How are adjacency pairs relevant to CLA?
The first sequence a child learns when speaking/having a conversation
What is proximal development?
The area just beyond what a child is able to already do unaided (guidance is needed to get them there)
Recasting?
When a MKO/Caregiver repeats back the grammatically correct form of an utterance
Expansion?
Addition of missing words within recasting to make a child’s speech more grammatically correct
Who was Genie and what did she prove?
Feral Child
Had no human interaction for 13 years. When she was released she had no language and had difficulty picking up language.
Proves children do need input from MKO/Caregiver to scaffold language
What do cognitive theorists believe
Peoples behaviours are influenced by other factors around them, not innateness
What are Hallidays 7 Functions
Instrumental
Regulatory
Interactional
Personal
Heuristic
Imaginative
Representational
What is representation?
Knowledge of the world which forms the content of our thoughts
