Lecture 11.3 Flashcards
What was Skinner’s perspective on language acquisition?
That environmental factors and re-inforcement are pre-dominant with innate capacities being minimal
What was Chomsky’s view on language acquisition?
Children must be equipped with powerful learning devices
What is the pre-linguistic stage?
Where cries, whimpers and babbling is the means for communication
Deaf children do this as well
What is the linguistic stage?
From 6 months, babble gains phonetic characteristics, large receptive stage, begin to acquire morphemes
What are Holophrastic sentences?
one word sentences
What is Telegraphic speech?
More one word sentences with small function words missing, strong sentence structure
What is the Language acquisition device and who came up with it?
The biological endowment for language
Chomsky
