Child Language Development Flashcards
Who are the 5 theorists of child language acquisition
Skinner (imitation)
Chomsky (innateness)
Piaget (cognitive)
Bruner (interaction)
Tomasello (usage-based)
Phonological development checklist
- pre-verbal stages
-phonemic contraction - easy vs hard consonants
-CV pattern
-realisation rules
-browns ‘fis’ phenomenon
Lexical development checklist
- children’s first fifty words
-types of words used
-Nelson
Semantic development checklist
-underextensions
-overextensions
-types of overextensions
Grammatical development checklist
-stages of grammatical development
- holophrastic stage
- two-word stage (browns semantic roles)
-telegraphic stage
-virtuous errors/overgeneralisations
-berko’s ‘wug’ experiment
-order of the acquisition of inflections (brown)
Pragmatic development checklist
-functions of children’s language (Halliday)
-Proto-conversations
-acquisition of interaction skills
-child directed speech (kaye)
What are the 5 preverbal stages
Crying
Cooing
Vocal play
Babbling
Melodic utterance
Crying (preverbal stages)
Common to the whole human race and doesn’t vary depending on where you are from (supports Chomsky)
Cooing (preverbal stages)
Baby is beginning to develop control over vocal muscles . They produce short vowel like sounds and some consonants
Vocal play (preverbal stages)
Controlled single vowel like or consonant like sound. More varied than babbling but less controlled
Babbling (preverbal stages)
Baby produces phonemes. Combinations of vowels and consonants eg. Ma , ga , baba
Melodic utterances (preverbal stages)
Melody , rhythm and intonation develop. Parents assume they have different functions eg questioning, exclaiming , greeting. Babies with different nationalities sound different
Reduplication ( realisation rules)
Repetition of sounds that occur commonly
‘Moo moo’
Deletion (realisation rules)
Deleting a sound from a word
‘Do’ for ‘dog
