CLA Theorists Flashcards
What are Bellugi’s stages of negation?
- use ‘no’ at the start of the sentence: ‘no want’
- use ‘no’ in the middle of the sentence: ‘I no want’
- use the accurate form: ‘I don’t want’
What are Bellugi’s stages of pronouns?
- use own name: ‘tom play’
- use first person pronouns: ‘I want’, ‘me play’
- learn others’ pronouns
What are Bellugi’s stages of Questions?
- 18 months= use rising innotation to indicate a question.
- 2-3 Years= ‘wh-‘ words and interrogative pronouns.
- 3+ years= subject verb inversions, auxiliary verbs.
What is Berko and Brown’s ‘Fis’ phenomenon?
-shows that babies do not hear themselves the same way that they hear others
-no amount of correction can change this
- they recognise others mistakes
What are Halliday’s seven functions?
- Instrumental= to satisfy needs
- Regulatory= to control behaviour
- Interactional= establish relationships
- Personal= to express feelings
- Heuristic= to find out information
- Imaginative= used to create new worlds
- Informative= communicate information
What are Dores’ Functions?
- Labelling
- Repeating
- Answering
- Request Actions
- Calling
- Greeting
- Protesting
- Practising
What is Vygotsky’s Theory?
Theory of development due to the importance of social environments.
- developed from Piaget= lang. is one aspect of a Childs overall intellectual development.
What is Berko’s ‘Wug’ Test?
how well children have learned morphemes associated with making nouns plural and verbs past tense:
- ‘z’= goggles
-‘s’= rats, docks
-‘tz’ = forces, stores
-using ‘ing’ or ‘er’ for nouns
What is Skinners Behaviourist Theory?
- children imitate adults
- positive and negative reinforcements
- negative reinforcements= scaffolding and recasting
What is Chomsky’s Innateness Theory?
- LAD= a Childs brain contains special language learning mechanisms at birth.
- universal grammar= ‘hardwired into the brain
What is Piaget’s Cognitive Theory?
-language is just one aspect of a Childs overall intellectual development.
-no object permanence, do not believe an object has an independent existence.
-cant articulate what they don’t understand
What is Bruner’s Interaction Theory?
- emphasis on the interaction between the child to the care-giver.
- Child Directed Speech (CDS) to develop lang. = influences turn-taking.
- CDS= performed by LASS, anyone who supports the child to develop lang.
What is Nelson’s theory of Categories?
- concrete nouns (naming things)
- verbs (actions/events)
- adjectives (describing/modifying)
What is Aicheson’s three stages of vocabulary?
- Labelling= making the link between sounds of words to the objects
- Packaging = understanding word range of meaning
- Network Building = connection between words
