Flashcards
Lasc8 - First Language Acquisition
Cards in this deck (38)
- 1Acquisition vs Learning
- 22.1. A species equipped for languageThe capacity to learn language is deeply ingrained in us as a
species, just as the capacity to walk, to grasp objects, to
recognize faces. We don‘t find any serious differences in
children growing up in congested urban slums, in isolated
mountain villages, or in privileged suburban villas.
(Dan Slobin, 1994)
Phylogenetic
Ontogenetic - 3Phylogenetic~ referring to the development of the human
species as a whole - 4Ontogeneticreferring to the development of one
organism / one human being - 5Phylogenetic perspective
- 6human vocal tract
- 7First language acquisition (FLA)
- 82.2. Milestones in FLA1. prelinguistic stage
2. single-word utterances
3. two-word utterances
4. simple sentences - 91. Prelinguistic stage
- 102. Single-word utterances
- 112. Single-word utterancesvocabulary size:
first 50 words (slow growth rate)
vocabulary spurt in year 2
age 24m: 50-550 age 6: ~15,000
influencing factors:
amount/quality of input, birth order, caretaker
responsiveness, phonological memory…. - 123. Two-word stage
- 134. Simple sentence stage
- 14More footage on “Stages of Language Acquisition” – quite fun stages of L1 acquisition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB5XSQi6Qhg
E-lecture on First Language Acquisition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prMGbLrbudA - 152.3. Acquisitional sequenceso All children learning a specific L1 run through the same
stages (but not all at the same time and speed)
Possess the cognitive concept (e.g. of negation) and
approximate adult-like form of expressing it step by step
o Interaction of lexicon, phonology, morphology, syntax,
pragmatics - 16Negation
- 17Questions
- 18What evidence does the child get? - the nature of input
- 19Do children learn through structured input?
- 20Conditions of FLA Preschool
- 21Conditions of FLA School years:
- 22Explaining LA
- 23Three central problems in first language acquisition and development
- 24Three main theoretical positions on language acquisition
- 251. Behaviorism (psychology)
- 26Environment is crucial ( NURTURE):
- 27Q: Do children learn through correction and reinforcement?
- 28Q: Do children learn through imitation?
- 292. Innatist perspective / Generativism (linguistics)
- 302. Innatist perspective / Generativism (linguistics) part II
- 31innate language faculty
- 323. Interactionist & developmental perspectives (cognitive psychology)
- 33Different theories of FLANativism (strong
Interactionism/
constructivism - 34Nativism (strong)
- 35Interactionism/ constructivism
- 36Bilingual FLA
- 37Unitary system hypothesis vs. Separate systems hypothesis
- 38The bilingual mind
Information
- Description
- Language in a Social Context (Dalton-Puffer) Flashcards on Lasc8 - First Language Acquisition, created by Lisza Neumeier on 10/09/2018.
- Created by
- Lisza Neumeier
- Views
- 5
- Rating