Child Language Theorys

Question 1

Chomsky

Answer 1

Nativism

Question 2

Chomsky terms

Answer 2

Virtuous errors, universal grammar, language acquisition device

Question 3

Chomsky supportive works

Answer 3

Wug test berko

Question 4

Social interaction

Answer 4

Vygotsky and Bruner but not together

Question 5

Vygotsky terms

Answer 5

Zone of proximal development, scaffolding, feedback, sing song voice, recast, questions, expansions

Question 6

Bruner terms

Answer 6

Language acquisition support system, scaffolding eg interrogatives, repetition, recast, sing song voice

Question 7

Piaget cognition

Answer 7

Sensorimotor- 0-24 month object permanence preoperational-2-7 years symbolic thought

Question 8

Bellugi

Answer 8

Stages of question form, use of auxiliary ‘where is’ shows post telegraphic

Question 9

Fis phenomenon

Answer 9

Berko and brown, brain works faster than articulators

Question 10

Nelson

Answer 10

First words, 60% naming words, action words, modifiers, personal, suggests they understand things they see easiest

Question 11

Aitchison

Answer 11

Labelling, packaging, network building, packaging- semantic errors: categorical overextension and analogical, underextension, mismatch statement- applies word wrong eg. Car for both a car and a road

Question 12

Phonemic errors

Answer 12

Substitution, addition, deletion, consonant cluster reduction, deletion of unstressed syllables, minimal pair

Question 13

Brown

Answer 13

Action+ object, verb+ object, actor+ action, subject+ verb, object+ location/explanation, subject+ adverb/compliment

Question 14

Halliday

Answer 14

Instrumental-doing something, regulatory- influence behaviour, interactional, personal, representationional, heuristic- explore environment, imaginative

Question 15

Dore

Answer 15

Labelling, repeating, answering, requesting action, calling, greeting, protesting, practising

Question 16

Bellugi question forming

Answer 16

1/2 question formed by tone, telegraphic use auxiliary verb eg where is mummy?, interrogatives enquired in an order: what- can see, where, why, when- no sense of time

Question 17

Bellugi negation

Answer 17

Use of no eg no wear shoes, no in the middle eg I no want it= telegraphic, attach negative to auxiliary eg I don’t want it

Question 18

Bellugi pronouns

Answer 18

Use name eg Tom play, use I/ me wrong eg me do that, use correctly eg I play with the toy= post telegraphic

Question 19

Crystal

Answer 19

Pragmatic way of saying no by hedging eg maybe instead of no parents use it then children use it in post telegraphic

Question 20

Cruttenden

Answer 20

Prosody, football scores, most under 7s didn’t understand prosodics

Question 21

Bf skinner

Answer 21

Behaviourism, positive and negative reinforcement, operant conditioning- looking at causes and consequences of action to understand behaviour

Question 22

Lenneburg

Answer 22

Critical period theory, there’s an ideal period to learn language from 2-13 after which language can not be acquired supported by genie