spoken language acquisition

Question 1

pre-verbal stage

Answer 1

biological: 0-2 months, instinctual
cooing: 2-6 months, experimental
babbling: 6 - 12 months, playing with sound
variegated and reduplicated sounds

Question 2

holophrastic stage

Answer 2

12-18 months
one word (content words)
under/overextension

Question 3

two word stage

Answer 3

18 months onwards
30 months - syntax rules
vocabulary spurt

Question 4

telegraphic stage

Answer 4

three plus words
lacks grammar words
third person

Question 5

post-telegraphic stage

Answer 5

age 3/4
conjunctions - “and then”

Question 6

instrumental sentence

Answer 6

fulfil a need

Question 7

regulatory sentence

Answer 7

control behaviour

Question 8

interactional sentence

Answer 8

develop relationships

Question 9

personal sentence

Answer 9

views/prefrences

Question 10

heuristic sentence

Answer 10

explore world

Question 11

imaginative sentence

Answer 11

play/creative

Question 12

representational sentence

Answer 12

exchange information

Question 13

fis phenomenon

Answer 13

understanding of phonemes develops before pronounciation

Question 14

jim the hearing boy born to deaf parents

Answer 14

need interaction to learn language, not just exposure

Question 15

genie wiley

Answer 15

missed critical period and could never learn grammar

Question 16

derivational affix

Answer 16

changes meaning

Question 17

inflectional affix

Answer 17

changes grammatical function

Question 18

bound morpheme

Answer 18

doesn’t make sense on it’s own

Question 19

unbound morpheme

Answer 19

makes sense on it’s own

Question 20

deletion

Answer 20

dropping a consonant

Question 21

substitution

Answer 21

changing a consonant

Question 22

addition

Answer 22

adding a vowel

Question 23

consonant cluster

Answer 23

group of consonants
consonant cluster reduction

Question 24

labial sounds

Answer 24

come from lips

Question 25

dental sounds

Answer 25

come from teeth

Question 26

alveolar sounds

Answer 26

come from teeth ridge

Question 27

palatal sounds

Answer 27

come from palate

Question 28

velar sounds

Answer 28

come from soft palate

Question 29

uvular sounds

Answer 29

come from uvula

Question 30

wug test (berko)

Answer 30

76% of 4-5 year olds can apply grammar rules to psuedo-words

Question 31

mlu (brown)

Answer 31

15-30 months: 1.75
28-36 months: 2.25
36-42 months: 2.75
40-46 months: 3.50
42-53 months: 4.00

Question 32

morpheme development (brown)

Answer 32

15-30 months: no bound
28-36 months: “-ing”, “-s”, bound
36-42 months: n/a
40-46 months: “-ed”
42-53 months: n/a

Question 33

word classes and tense acquisition (brown)

Answer 33

15-30 months: generally correct word order
28-36 months: n/a
36-42 months: possessives, articles, adjectives, adverbs
40-46 months: n/a
42-53 months: compound sentences

Question 34

pronoun acquisition (bellugi)

Answer 34

1. name
2. difference between subject/object
3. applies subject/object

Question 35

negative acquisition (bellugi)

Answer 35

1. beginning
2. middle
3. attached to copula/auxiliary

Question 36

question formation (bellugi)

Answer 36

1. rising intonation with singular words
2. add verbs to singular words
3. wh- questions
4. tag questions

Question 37

behaviourist theory (skinner)

Answer 37

operant conditioning
imitation

Question 38

nativist theory (chomsky)

Answer 38

innate
lad (language acquisition device)
virtuous errors

Question 39

social interaction theory (bruner)

Answer 39

cds (child directed speech)
lass (language acquisition support system)
recasts:
- framing: repetition, different contexts
- expansion: correct
- expatiation: correct with extra

Question 40

usage based model (tomasello)

Answer 40

pattern spotting
“more” gets you more

Question 41

constructivist theory (vygotsky)

Answer 41

zpd (zone of proximal development)
mko (more knowledgeable other)
scaffolding

Question 42

cognitive theory (piaget)

Answer 42

understand concept before applying it