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Language Aquisition
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- 1How does Genie's story support behaviourism:Requires a stimulus to imitate and make a response.
There is a critical period for language aquisition. The left hemisphere shrinks. - 2GSubstitution: swapping one word for another
Omission: Miss out sounds - 3Outline what insertion/transposition:Insertion = adding letters
Transposition - letters wrong way round - 4Frith interpreted 3 stages of reading development: Logographic StageBasic sight vocabulary, similar looking words confused and confused about their combination to form sounds
- 5Frith interpreted 3 stages of reading development: Alphabetical StageRecognise sound>letter correspondence ,
Can spell simple and regular words - 6Frith interpreted 3 stages of reading development: Orthographic Stage:Whole word recognition (not just letters). Recognise a large number of words instantly whilst accessing their meaning.
- 7What did Vygotsky believe: The early word meanings thus acquired will be the embryos of concept formation.Children's language develops through social interactions with the environment.
Language is a separate system until the age of 3 (producing verbal thought).
Language directs thinking. The internal monologue drives cognitive development. - 8Bilingualism: Stage 1Lexical stages: Isn't equivalent translation so confusing. Mixed words from two languages.
- 9Bilingualism: Stage 2Progress from one word phrase but will keep mixing up words
- 10Bilingualism: Stage 3Mixup less frequently at age 3 and even less likely at age 4
- 11Bilingualism: Stage 4Apply one set of grammatical rules to both languages. Discover languages are not the same and use in different contexts.
- 12What is the technical term for switching languages:Actively using both languages with fluency.
Borrowing is having one primary and mixing it with another for efficiency. - 13How do Children initially start speaking?Imitate off their parents
- 14Outline some of Chomsky's Nativist Theory:Children exposed to very little correctly formed language yet they learn the proper terms,
Language is Innate. Children deduce grammatical rules to the language they hear.
Principle of Universal Grammer
> Subject + Verb + Object
(overextend is evidence for this - 15Nelson's Neglect:If you over-correct a child's writing, will bring their self-esteem down and reduce their relationship with language (negative schema for it).
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- A level English Language (Child Language Aquisition) Flashcards on Language Aquisition, created by Thomas Partridge on 18/10/2018.
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