Wk2 cHiLd LaNgUaGe AcQuiSItIoN

Question 1

Children acquire adult language in how long?

Answer 1

3 years

Question 2

What does Poverty of Stimulus theory mean?

Answer 2

The argument that the linguistic input received by young children is in itself insufficient to explain their detailed knowledge of their first language, so people must be born with an innate ability to learn a language

Question 3

We do not always speak in full sentences but children work it out, making input often ____ and ____

Answer 3

‘degenerate’ and finite

Question 4

When an adult corrects a child’s speech it is called…

Answer 4

Negative evidence

Question 5

Which types of evidence are these..

What a child hears»>adult corrects them»>child drops their mistake (because they never hear the mistake being used)

Answer 5

Positive evidence»>Negative evidence»>Indirect evidence

Question 6

What age makes ‘stimulus controlled noises’?

Answer 6

Newborns

Question 7

What age babbles?

Answer 7

6 months

Question 8

What age says first word?

Answer 8

Around 12 months

Question 9

What age is holophrastic/ one word stage? eg. doggie

Answer 9

12-17 months

Question 10

What age is two word stage?

Answer 10

18-22 months

Question 11

What age is multiword stage?

Answer 11

22+ months

Question 12

What is the telegraphic stage?

Answer 12

The two word stage (age 17-19 months)

Question 13

Which stage expresses….
Disappearance/negation/rejection ‘no teddy’, ‘allgone milk’
Possession ‘mommy sock’, ‘baby’s milk’
Location ‘teddy bed’, ‘fly block’
Recurrence ‘more raisin’, ‘more soap’ (child wants more soap on her hands)
Demonstrative ‘that car’, ‘that red’?

Answer 13

Telegraphic stage

Question 14

Which stage expresses....
More than two words in an utterance
(e.g. allgone big stick, all wet pants, he play
 little tune, no touching mommy book, no
 mommy drink, no Lois do it)?

Answer 14

The multiword stage (20-24 months)

Question 15

‘No kitchen’ ‘No touch the hair’ are examples of…..

Answer 15

Negation

Question 16

Examples of children using......
Daddy come see Emma
Come see
Fall down
Pen fall down
I write on the paper
I write letter grandad
I wash the hair
I love shampoo

Answer 16

Adult-like syntax

Question 17

Children come to language acquisition with a ‘blank mind’ (tabula rasa)
Learn through imitation (Imitation Theory)
Which theory is this?

Answer 17

Behaviourist Theory (B.F.Skinner)

Question 18

Children come to language acquisition prepared (pre-wired/pre-programmed)
Which theory is this?

Answer 18

Nativist Theory (Noam Chomsky 1958)

Question 19

What is language faculty?

Answer 19

An inborn mechanism
[kid hears language>processes it>uses grammar and creates output]

Experience of -> Language -> Grammar of
Language Faculty Language