Language Development Flashcards
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Language
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Symbols used to communicate w/ others & in our thinking
2
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Theoretical perspective: Learning
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- Children learn language through imitation & conditioning (reinforcement)
- Skinner – Operant conditioning
- Bandura – Learn through observation, adults speak clearer to babies, exact imitation is not needed, feedback plays a role.
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Theoretical perspective: Nativist
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- Children are born with mechanisms that allow children to learn language QUICKLY & EASILY.
- Natural capacity
- Separate from cognitive abilities
- Noam Chomsky (linguistic)
4
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Functionalist view
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• children are motivated, really want to learn
5
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Theoretical perspective: Interactionalist view
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• language created socially through interaction
6
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Theoretical perspective: Cognitive developmental
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- emerged in the 70’s
- cognitive abilities have a role in language
- Language is a symbolic way of thinking
7
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Cooing
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- ~ 2 months
- starting to learn to use language
- beginning of conversational rules
8
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Reduplicated babbling
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- ~ 6 months
- early babbling
- same sounds
9
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Echolalia
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- 10-12 months
* saying back a word that sounds a like
10
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1st word
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• 11-13 months
11
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Combined words
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- ~18 months
* combine 2 words together
12
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Gestures
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• 8-10 months
13
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Referential communication
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- pointing
* labeling
14
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Transition to words
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• Naming explosion (vocab. burst) - fast mapping strategy - @ about 6,000 words - come up with names quickly - pick up words • Lexicon vocab - by 18 months about 50 words - understand more words than they know.
15
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What is used to study speech sounds?
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- Phonetics
* phoneme
