Child Language Acuistion N2 Flashcards
What is overextension
Children link objects with similar qualities
E.g. dog to all four legged animals
Underextension
Giving a word a narrower definition than it really has
E.g. duck for fluffy cartoon ducks and not brown ducks at the park
Rescorla (1980) three main types of children overextension
Categorical
Analogical
Statements
Aitchison stages of children’s linguistic development
Labelling
Packaging
Networking
Hypernym
E.g. clothes
Hypernym
E.g. clothes
Hyponym
E.g top, trousers, jacket
Why are parents more likely to use hyponyms in interactions with children
As it encourages children to network build and increases their vocabulary as they acquire new words for particular objects
Why are parents more likely to use hyponyms in interactions with children
As it encourages children to network build and increases their vocabulary as they acquire new words for particular objects
Hallidays functions of speech
Instrumental
Interactional
Imaginative
Regulatory
Representational
Personal
Heuristic
Jean Piaget
Emphasised that children are active learners who use their
environment
social interactions
to shape their language
Piagets stages of children’s linguistic development
Sensorimotor
Pre-operational
Concrete operational
Formal operational
Describe the sensorimotor stage
Birth- 2 years
Child experiences physical world through the senses and begins the classifying the things in it
Develop object permanence
Describe the pre-operational stage
2-7 years
Language and motor skills develop and become more competent
Language is egocentric
Concrete operational
7-11 years
Children begin to think logically about concrete operational events
