Child Language

Question 1

Chomsky

Answer 1

Children are born with an innate knowledge of language LAD, children use language they cannot have heard

Question 2

B. F. Skinner

Answer 2

Proposed language was learned behaviour and children learn through positive and negative reinforcement

Question 3

Piaget

Answer 3

Children develop language through questioning the world around them, once they understand a concept, they will learn the word

Question 4

Wang and Bellugi

Answer 4

Children have a rare chromosomal disorder where they say words without knowing meanings

Question 5

Eric lenneberg

Answer 5

Critical period hypothesis, the first few years of life language develops quickly and becomes more difficult after puberty

Question 6

Bruner

Answer 6

Interaction with caregivers is vital. LASS (language accusation support system) parents engage in communication and treat child as intelligent conversational participant

Question 7

Catherine snow

Answer 7

Child directed speech, parents speak to children with repeated frames, more pronounced lip movement, tag questions

Question 8

Vygotsky

Answer 8

Language develops through social interactions, language is dictated by thought

Question 9

Tomas Elmo

Answer 9

Usage based model children bring pattern funding and taking cues from context

Question 10

Jean Rothery

Answer 10

Observation: simple yet form of writing
Recount: subjective chronological recount of an event
Report: objective and factual recount
Narrative: stories and poems

Question 11

Britton’s model

Answer 11

Expressive: first person and concerned with the child

Poetic: stories and poems

Transactional: writing with a purpose