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Language Theory Midterm Flashcards

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Why did the behaviorist theory fall out of favor?

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Ignored cognition

Just imitation, rewards and practice

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Feel good account of language acquisition

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Locke: explains why a particular infant is carrying out a particular trait at a particular time
Series of individual behaviors build on one another

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Assimilative behaviors

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  • Brain of the child is just soaking up info

* Orienting to faces

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Accomodative behaviors

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  • Infant adapts itself to what the adult is doing

* Imitating facial expressions

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Locke linking social cognition and language acquisition

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Piagetian, assimilation and accommodation

“bottle” #21

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epistemic child

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Piaget the child trying to find out how the world is structured and in the process making the structure of his own mind.

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cultural-historical child

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vygotsky, in a specific historic context, in a culture that may or may not nurture

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cognitive self

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child referring to self as “I”, beginning to objectify themselves

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Experiential child

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Nelson, Piaget

Children are knowledge seeking, not innate

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Usage based language acquisition

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Tomasello: children learn what they hear
Meaning is use
Structure emerges from use
Joint attention is critical

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mental state terms

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know and think, no concrete, visible referents

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Temporal and causal terms

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child must be able to find themselves in time and use the terms to understand how events relate to each other

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Implicit memory

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Child doesn’t separate their memories from anyone else’s

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Explicit memory

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Need it for narratives, language is really theirs when they develop EM

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modularity hypothesis

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brain is divided into separate modules, each with the ability to deal with a specialized kind of information

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Story narratives

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Children have to understand scenes, people, sequences, actions

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Conversational discourse

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Admonishment and negotiation
Narratives of experience
Explanations
Future plans
Fictional stories
18
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Mental grammar

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Complete set of rules
Allows for comprehension of novel utterances
Unconscious grammatical principles

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Fundamental arguments

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Jackendoff
Mental Grammar
Innate Language
Construction of Experience

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Innate language

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the human brain contains a genetically determined specialization for language.
The way that children learn to talk implies that the human brain has a genetic predisposition to learn language.

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Construction of experience

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our experience of the world is actively constructed by the unconscious principles that operate in the brain
Organizing and reorganizing input

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Human senses

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Language is at the center of socialization, cognition, memory, joint attention, meaning, experience, categorization, representation, motivation, and perception

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Universal Grammar

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Jackendoff: Innate ability to learn language

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Unconscious principles

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Jackendoff: Genetic hypothesis (created to explain innate knowledge)

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Nativist speech production and reception

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thought - syntax - phonology - motor planning - motor movement - resonance of speech tract - speech signal
Problem with speech reception- garden path, complex houses married…

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Nelson

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Domain general/Acquired: Can move between language acquisition stages, theory theory, Piaget and vygotsky (introduced social interaction)

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Piaget

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Looked at children’s interactions with objects, not people.
Epistemic child (constructing world out of experiences
object permanence, means-ends, cognition
Domain general and learned

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Vygotsky

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Children are very actively seeing language and interactions
Cultural and historical child
Introduced social interaction

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Chomsky

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Innate/Specific: language is already there, just needs to be tuned up, creativity and generativity of language

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Jackendoff

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Fundamental arguments: Mental Grammar, Innate Knowledge and Construction of Experience
Chomskian

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Nativists

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Innate-specific: Acquisition is genetic, modularity hypothesis

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Locke

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Domain general and learned, piagetian, have to complete stages of language acquisition, feel good account of language acquisition

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Tomasello

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Usage based language acquisition, children learn what they hear

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