Child Language Acquisition Theories Flashcards
Application of child language theories
Nouns theorist name?
Katherine Nelson
What did Nelson do in regards to classifying children’s words?
She classified the first 50 words a child learns into 4 main categories
What were the 4 categories Nelson classified the children’s words into?
Naming
Actions
Social
Modifiers
What were the findings of Nelson in regards to the largest groups of words?
The largest group of words were 60% of words that named people animals and objects
Next words that expressed or demanded actions
Then modifiers
Then social words like yes and no
What is stage one of David crystals child language learning?
Children say things for 3 main purposes
To get something they want
To draw someone’s attention
To draw attention to something
What is stage two of David crystals child language theory?
When children ask questions ‘where’ questions come first. Children become concerned with naming and classifying things
Stage four David crystal
Increase in pragmatic understanding of others wants and needs
Stage five David crystal
Use of full grammatical sentences talking about times eg after and before
What is Jean Aitchisons theory?
Looks at connections between lexical and semantic development. Labelling packaging and network building
Define labelling
Labelling: linking words to the objects to which they refer to , understanding that objects can be labelled
Berko Gleeson’s wug test supports what theorist?
Supports LAD Chomsky
What does the fis phenomenon suggest?
That children’s language perception is more advanced than their language production.
Theorist for inatness theory?
Noam Chomsky
Theorist for interaction
Bruner
Theorist for imitation?
Skinner look for adult explicitly modelling or teaching language and children responding
