Section 8: Language Acquisition Flashcards
speech disorder is called
aphasia
- On outside surface of left frontal lobe
2. Controls grammar
Broca’s area
- Controls vocabulary
Wernicke’s area
determining what someone wants a word to refer to
referential intentions
Receptive vocabulary is
vocabulary children can understand
Fast mapping is
forming a quick, “fast pass” idea of a word’s meaning when the word is first heard
i. Observed in children as young as 15 months but not before
ii. Younger children don’t seem to be able to distinguish speaker’s intention and therefore think a new word applies to the new object they (the child) are seeing
Children have a hard time understanding metaphors that
compare people to objects
Conversational acts are
actions to achieve goals performed through language and gesture
The two forms of early conversational acts are:
protoimperatives
protodeclaratives
Protodeclaratives are
early ways of engaging another person to achieve a desired goal
1. E.g. holding a cup to get a refill
Protodeclaratives are
ways of establishing joint attention and sustaining dialogue
1. E.g. pointing
Chomsky believes that language develops because of
an LAD (Language acquisition device)
Formats are
recurrent socially patterned activities in which adult and child do things together
An LASS is
Bruner’s term for the parental behaviors and formatted events within which children acquire language.
a. Environmental complement to the innate, biologically constituted LAD
Cognitive approaches explain grammar by saying:
a. Propose grammar is a biproduct of the growth of vocabulary and of children’s attempts to express increasingly complex thoughts
b. As vocab increases, so too does grammatical complexity
