Importance of Input

Question 1

Gathercole 2002

Answer 1

Suggests there may be a threshold that children need to hear to reach a ‘critical mass’ of input, depending on the transparency and reliability of the input in terms of form-function mappings

Question 2

Unsworth 2013

Answer 2

To achieve dominance in a language, they need to receive ‘at least 65% of input in one of the languages’

Question 3

Houston & Jusczyk 2000

Answer 3

Observed that infants were able to recognise words with greater success when they had been trained on words produced by multiple talkers of both genders rather than just one speaker

Question 4

Place & Hoff 2011

Answer 4

3 properties of input were positive predictors of skills- number of conversational partners, number of different speakers and native speaker exposure

Question 5

De Houwer 2007

Answer 5

Home input patterns where both parents used the minority language and where at most one parent spoke the majority language had a high chance of success- ‘one parent one language’ neither necessary nor sufficient