Essay Question - Language Explained Flashcards
Name 2 Theories of Language Development.
Behaviorist and Nativist
__________ explanations state that language is learned through operant conditioning (__________, ______, __________) and imitation. (________)
Behaviorist explanations state that language is learned through operant conditioning (reinforcement, shaping, extinction) and imitation. (*Skinner)
Behaviorist Evidence #1: As ______ mature they begin to vocalize, and vocalizations the fail to be _________ gradually diminish.
Behaviorist Evidence #1: As *infants mature they begin to vocalize, and vocalizations the fail to be *reinforced gradually diminish.
Behaviorist Evidence #2: Infants __________ that are reinforced by ______ parents will ______ with the child as they continue to ______.
Behaviorist Evidence #2: Infants *vocalizations that are reinforced by *doting parents will *remain with the child as they continue to *mature.
Behaviorist Evidence #3:_____ shape __________ speech patterns by reinforcing those that are _________ and ignoring or________ those that aren’t.
Behaviorist Evidence #3: *Adults shape *imitated speech patterns by reinforcing those that are grammatical and ignoring orpunishing those that aren’t.
Behaviorist Argument #1: _______ do not spend much time______their children to speak ___________.
Behaviorist Argument #1: Parents do not spend much timeteaching their children to speak *grammatically.
Behaviorist Argument #2: Children generate ________ they have never ______ before.
Behaviorist Argument #2: Children generate *sentences they have never *heard before.
Behaviorist Argument #3: ________’s overgeneralization of ________ rules (i.e. I goed or I rided) would not be able to be _____ if all learning was through trial and error or simply ________.
Behaviorist Argument #3: *Children’s overgeneralization of *grammatical rules (i.e. I goed or I rided) would not be able to be *predicted if all learning was through trial and error or simply *imitated.
__________ explinations argue language development is an ______, biological ________ and views children learning ________ rules with ease because they are _____ to do so.
*Nativist explinations argue language development is an *innate, biological *capacity and views children learning *grammatical rules with ease because they are *wired to do so.
Nativist Evidence #1: There is evidence showing language _______ and overall ________ can be ________ of each other.
Nativist Evidence #1: There is evidence showing language *aqusition and overall *intelligence can be *indipendent of each other.
Nativist Evidence #2: There is evidence that language can only be _______ during restricted periods of _________.
Nativist Evidence #2: There is evidence that language can only be *aquired during restricted periods of *development.
Nativist Argument #1: There is no ________ of how language ________ in these theories, only the ___.
Nativist Argument #1: There is no *explination of how language *developed in these theories, only the *why.
