Midterms reviewer Flashcards
The relationship between linguistic signs (e.g., words) and their meanings is arbitrary, meaning there is no inherent connection between the sound of a word and its referent
Arbitariness
is the vowel-like sound responding to human sounds more definite
Cooing/Pre talking stage
refers to the ability to use language to refer to things not present in the immediate environment,
Displacement
infants produce as consonant-vowel combinations
babbling stage
where a small set of discrete units (phonemes) is combined to form a larger set of meaningful units (morphemes and words).
Duality of patterning
is the mini sentences with simple semantic relations. As Fromkin (1983:329) states that children begin to form actual two-word sentences
Two word stage
proposes that the ability to acquire language is innate and biologically wired in the human brain
nativist approach by noam chomsky
a set of inherent linguistic structures and principles common to all human languages.
Universal grammar
is the children‟s first single word which represent to a sentence.
Holophrastic
Swiss psychologist placed acquisition of language within the context of a child’s mental or cognitive development
Jean piaget
When the child begins to produce utterances that are longer than two words, these utterances appear to be “sentence-like”; they have hierarchical, constituent structures similar to the syntactic structures found in the sentences produced by adult grammar.
Telegraphic
at this stage is fastest increase in vocabulary with many new additions everyday; no babbling at all; u
Later multiword stage
He first suggested social Interactionist Theory
Jerome Bruner
he is best known for his contributions to classical conditioning
Ivan pavlov
He claims that children are biologically programmed for language and that language develops in the child in just the same way that other biological functions develop.
Noam Chomsky
She demonstrated that children learn language not as a series of separate discrete items, but as an integrated system
Jean Berko
He is the founder of behaviorist theory
John B Watson
He is the proponent of Connectionism (Law of Learning)
Edward Thorndike
He considers all learning to be the establishment of habits as a result of reinforcement and reward
BF Skinner
He emphasized the importance of the cultural and social context in language learning.
Lev Vygotsky
is the central idea behind the behavioristic theory in language acquisition
Imitation And innateness
It is actually a theory of native language learning, advanced in part as a reaction to traditional grammar
Behaviorist Theory
It claims that the linguistic stimulus elicits a mediating response
Mediation theory
It is a method of learning that uses reward and punishment to modify behaviour.
Operant Conditioning