language development

language development

1. phonlogy

   • soundsystem of language
     • helps understand how phoemes -> syllables & morphemes-> words
     • infants pick up sounds that go together
   • phonemes
     • sound particular to ones language
   • Morphemes
     • smallest meaningful lingustic unit
       • inflection rules-govern changes according to words role in sentence
       • derivational rules-allow changes to morpheme meaning &/or gramatical status(help+er)

2. sematics

   • meaning of words sentences,phrases
   • as add words to vocab learn their sematic relationship
   • sentences can be semantically gramatically correct but semantically incorrect

3. syntax

   • rules on how words combined to make gramatically correct sentences

4. Pragmatics

   • knowledge of how lang used in diff contexts
   • incls social aspects of lang-turntaking, politeness etc.

5. How language develops

   • Pre lanuage
     • cooing&babbling,recognising words

6. SKINNER-behaviourist

   • Blank slates, Language is learnt,
   • Lang developed and shaped by reward and punishment.
   • criticims
     • children=gramatical errors that cannot be learnt
     • children able to devel sophisticated lang in impoverished environ

7. CHOMSKY-nativist

   • lang innate
   • LAD
   • universal grammar
   • Criticism
     • some exposed to non interactive lang, have difficulties with lang aquisition
     • no common structure of human lang to explain universal grammar

8. interactionist

   • both innate and environmental influences
   • incl interactions with both cog and social aspects of lang
     • cog apsects
       • devel of symbolic reasoning and mental representations
       • schema-building and rule use
     • social aspects
       • child directed speech