EL102 (MIDTERMS) Flashcards
the ability to acquire language is innate and biologically wired in the human brain
NATIVIST APPROACH
a set of inherent linguistic structures and principles common to all human languages.
UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR
considered to be a biologically-based mental structure that allows children to intuitively grasp the grammatical structures of their native language
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE (LAD)
If a child is not exposed to language during this critical period, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to acquire full language proficiency later in life
CRITICAL PERIOD HYPOTHESIS
claiming that the linguistic input children receive is often insufficient and ambiguous to explain the complexity of language that they eventually produce
POVERTY OF STIMULUS
the vowel-like sound responding to human sounds more definitely, turns head, eyes seem to search for speaker occasionally some chuckling sounds
PRE TALKING STAGE/ COOING STAGE
Age of cooing
0-6 MONTHS
consonant-vowel combinations
BABBLING STAGE
Example of babbling
MA-MA-MA / PA-PA-PA
Example of cooing
UH/OH/AH
Age of babbling
6-8 MONTHS
the children’s first single word which represent to a sentence. Children using one word to express particular emotional state.
HOLOPHRASTIC STAGE
Age of holophrastic stage
9-18 MONTHS
Example of holophrastic
“DEDE” WHICH MEANS “MOMMY I WANT MILK”
children begin to form actual two-word sentences, with the relations between the two words showing definite syntactic and semantic relations
TWO WORD STAGE
Example of two word stage
“SHOES & BED” WHICH MEANS “MOMMY THERE IS A SHOES ON THE BED”
Age of two word stage
18-24 MONTHS
child begins to produce utterances that are longer than two words, these utterances appear to be “sentence-like”; they have hierarchical,
TELEGRAPHIC STAGE
Age of telegraphic stage
24-30 MONTHS
at this stage is fastest increase in vocabulary with many new additions every day; no babbling at all;
LATER MULTI WORD STAGE
Age of later multiword stage
30+ MONTHS
A Swiss psychologist placed acquisition of language within the context of a child’s mental or cognitive development.
JEAN PIAGET
A child has to understand a concept before s/he an acquire the particular language form which expresses that concept.
JEAN PIAGET
She demonstrated that children learn language not as a series of separate discrete items, but as an integrated system.
JEAN BERKO