CLA - spoken Flashcards
behaviourism
children copy forms and then parents perform operant conditioning
3 issues with behaviourism
kids routinely ignore corrections, kids produce unheard forms, parents correct lexis not grammar
nativism
language is innate, so children use trial and error to experiment
issue with nativism
no consideration of environmental factors
in nativism, what is a virtuous error?
a logical mistake, overapplying the rule
cognitive
to use a structure, children must first understand the concept
interactionist
language is innate, but children learn from parent interaction (CDS)
4 examples of CDS
recasting questions, repetition of utterances, model standard, lexical expansion
deletion
delete sounds they find find difficult
substitution
swapping sounds they find difficult to ones they find easier
which approximates tend to be switched
/l/ and /r/ by /w/ and /j/
elision
loss of a sound to make it easier
reduction
changing a sound to an unstressed schwa
telegraphic speech proves
nativism bc its in all languages
telegraphic speech
omission of function words, but not lexical
inflectional morphemes
<-s> for possession or plurality
derivational morphemes
changes the word class
standard negated phrase structure
aux verb + neg adverb + lexical verb
3 areas of phonology
developmental, regional, casual
copula verb
only verb in a sentence - to be
copula verb = ?
subject complement
instrumental function
expresses need
regulatory function
controls actions of others
interactional function
making sociable contact
personal function
expresses feelings
heuristic function
later development
seeking info
representational function
later development
giving info
imaginative function
later development
stories, lies, etc
plurality phonemes
/s/ /z/ /iz/
tense phonemes
/d/ /t/
