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1
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What are the 5 theories of CLA and their Authors

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1 - Behaviourist, Skinner
2 - Nativism/Innatist, Chomsky
3 - Interactionist, Bruner
4 - Cognitive, Piaget
5 - ZPD (Zone of proximal development), Vgotsky

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Is their any theory that has been debunked?

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Yes, the behaviourist theory

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What is the Behaviourist theory?

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Suggests = - Children are blank slates
- Children imitate patterns through positive reinforcement

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What is Evidence for the Behaviourist theory?

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Evidence = - Child repetition
- Adult positive reinforcement of childs utterance

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What are some Problems with the Behaviourist theory?

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Problems= - Children follow observable patterns regardless of
reinforcement given by parents
- Children can understand and produce utterances for
greater no. situations than prior exposure (apply to new
context)

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What is the Innatist theory?

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Suggests = - ability to acquire language is innate
- brain has LAD which indicates brain= hard-wired if enough
exposure

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What is some Evidence for the Innatist theory?

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Evidence = - Children create own rules to create own utterances
- acquisition occurs without carefully planned eg of language

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What are some Problems with the Innatist theory?

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Problems= - Focused on children hard-wired not how develop language
- Never did experiments relying on hypothesis (others did it)

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What is the Interactionist theory?

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Suggests = - Agreement with Chomsky but added that assisted by
carefully-constructed input from caretakers (motherese,
parentese etc.)

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What is some Evidence for the Interactionist theory?

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Evidence = - Simplified sentences
- Repetition
- Rising intonation (etc.)

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What are some Problems with the Interactionist theory?

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Problems= - Despite parentese, children acquire language at own pace
- Children produce language not just repeated from
interaction with care-givers

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What is the Cognitive theory?

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Suggests = - Child lang. acquisition: part of childs wider development
- Language comes with understanding

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What is some Evidence for the Cognitive theory?

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Evidence = - Child can’t linguistically articulate concepts they don’t
understand
- Children avoid language related concepts they don’t
understand

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What are some Problems with the Cognitive theory?

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Problems= - Evidence of children with severe learning difficulties who
still manage to use language far beyond understanding
- Suggest link is not as strong as Piaget though

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What is the ZPD theory?

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Suggests = - A learner can do something with guidance

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What is some Evidence for the ZPD theory?

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Evidence = - Children can ‘correct’ utterance with adult guidance
- Children repeat older siblings
- Adult input prompts development

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What are the 6 stages of CLA and their age range?

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1 - Pre-verbal, 0-3mths
2 - Babbling, 3-12mths
3 - One-word (Holophrastic), 12-18mths
4 - Two-word, 1-2yrs
5 - Multi-word (Telegraphic), 2-3yrs
6 - Later Multi-word, 3-4yrs

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What is in the Pre-verbal stage?

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  • Babies can tell speech from other sounds
  • Babies experiment with articulators
  • Babies produce different cries for different meanings
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What is the Babbling stage?

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  • Babies engage in turn-taking
  • Babies have no meaning associated with sound
  • Repeated sounds eg: ‘ba ba’ and ‘la la’
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What is the One-word stage?

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  • Children name things in immediate environment
  • Children use content words; especially nouns and lexical verbs
  • Discover connection between sound and meaning
  • One-word only
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What is the Two-word stage?

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  • Rely on content words
  • ~50-200 words in vocab
  • Ordering of SVO conforms to standard word order
  • Only Two-words
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What is the Multi-word stage?

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  • Range of functions words and inflectional morphemes
  • Children joining utterances in standard word order
  • Vocab ~1000 words
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What is the Later Multi-word stage?

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-Engage in make-believe
- Pronouns used (Me ,I ,You)
- Sentences longer (4+ words)
- Range of plural and past tense evident

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What do you need to write in theory CLA Questions? (4 points)

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1 - Theorists
2 - Main hypothesis
3 - Evidence with metalanguage
4 - Weakness (problem)

25
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What are the 5 sound change processes?

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1 - Addition
2 - Deletion
3 - Substitution
4 - Constant cluster reduction
5 - Reduplication

26
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What do you need to write in Articulation CLA Questions? (4 points)

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1 - IPA symbols and labels
2 - Metalanguage label (Sound change processes)
3 - Why
4 - Word/target

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What are the phonetic feature/s for CLA?

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Sound change processes

28
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What are the morphology feature/s for CLA

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  • Regular rule
  • Past tense/plural
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What are the syntax feature/s for CLA?

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  • SVO order
  • Interrogative
  • Negation*

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