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Introduction
Anderson and Freebody (1981)
found that children’s vocabulary at school entry is a major predictor of academic achievement
Introduction
Rapid development
from knowing 50-100 words at 18 months to 6000 at age 5
Chomsky paragraph 1.
proposed that children can not learn language soley through interaction because of two problems: The poverty of stimulus and the no negative prob.
Universal grammar
support for innate grammar
Jean Berjo (1981) Wug test
INflexional morphemes
plural suffix, allomorph /z/
Support for basic aspects of conversation
Turn taking Grather et al., (2015)
Biological support for innate language
Pinker
Aphasia- brocas and wernickes area.
Problem with nativist argument
the nature argument into language acquisition could be fundamentally flawed. There is no account of what universal grammar is or how it is used to acquire language. Marcus (1993) suggests that there is no negatve feedback problem because children hear correct grammatical utterances all the time.
Bates
(1976) social interaction
Tomasello
(2003)imitation, analogy making, generalisations, statistical learning and intention reading.
Vygotsky
(1978) scaffolding
Nelson et al
(2009)
The distinct prosodic characteristics of motherese are fundamental to childrens syntactic development. The development of the organisation of structures of words
Cooper and Aslin
(1990) children have a preference for motheres
Carpenter et al
(1998) joint attention predicts later word learning
Tomasello and Farrar
(1986) During joint attention, mothers and children speak more, longer conversations with more feedback
THe gavagai problem
Quinn (1960) an infinite number of words possible. BUT constructivists believe children learn lang through interaction and it has been shown:
Smith (2000) Associative learning across contexts
Tomasello (2003) social cues to convey meaning
Fisher (2002) linguistic cues.
