Children Language Dev Flashcards
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Behaviourism
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Skinner- Child learns language through positive and negative reinforcement
EXAM- Look for caregiver repeating and reinforcing utterances made by child
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Internationalism Nurture (CASE STUDY) Bard and Sachs
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- Jim parent deaf
- Exposed to TV
- Passed critical period
- But interaction with speech therapist helped acquire language- interaction is important
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Bruner (Interactionalist)
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- Believes child must interact with care giver to learn language
- Created LASS- Designed to help children learn language
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Catherine Snow (Interactionalist)
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- Coined ‘motherse’- language used by mother to child
- Argues Language acquisition happens as a result of interaction between mother and child
5
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John Snarey
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- Father interact differently
- Suggest ‘roughhousing’ with father teaches biting, kicking and violence is unacceptable
process: loud volumes, challenging vocab, chasing
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Challenging INTERACTIONALISM
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- MYZOR- Believes CDS helps with social dev not linguistic dev
E.g. May teach children turn taking but not correct forms
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Natavism (Noam Chomsky)
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- Created LAD- Children have something in the brain to learn language
- Chomsky- critical period up to 7, LAD switches off, becomes difficult to learn language
- Children resist corrections to their mistakes, LAD is instructing them they are right, care giver wrong
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Natavism (Challenge) Tomasello and Pinker
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- Chomsky theory, not scientific, hypothetical
- Dismissed Chomsky as ‘arm chair linguist’
- Pinker- every utterance child makes is unique, questions whether child can learn through imitations
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Berko- Wug test
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- Children given a pic of a bird
- Asked children what is the plural
- Test invented nouns and verbs to test pluralisation
FINDINGS: 76%- 4-5 used correctly
97%- 5-7 used correctly
- Children did not know the word proves children follow rules not imitation
