THEORISTS

THEORISTS

1. CHOMSKY

   • Rejects skinners behaviourism theory
   • Believes that all children are hardwired to learn any language when they are born.
     • He suggests that children combine the information they have gained from just being surrounded by lanaguge everyday, with the knowledge they already carry in their brains. Chomsky titled this 'INATE' and it plays a huge part in the LAD (Language Acquisition Device)
   • Overgeneralisations often support Chomsky as children have their own form of language that adults don't use. (Also an example of his disagreement with Skinner)

2. PIAGET

3. SKINNER

4. BRUNER

   • LASS (Language Acquisition Support System)
     • He viewed child parent interactions with books in four phases:
       • 1. GAINING ATTENTION- getting the baby to focus on a picture
       • 2. QUERY - asking the baby what an object is in the picture
       • 3.LABEL- telling the baby what the object in the picture is
       • 4. FEEDBACK- responding to the baby's utterance

5. JEAN BERKO GLEASON & ROGER BROWN

   • THE 'FIS' phonological errors
     • Child: A fis
       • Adult: is this your fis?
         • Child: No
           • Child: A fis
             • Adult: is this your fish?
               • Child: Yes, my fis

6. KATHERINE NELSON

   • 4 CATEGORIES OF FIRST WORDS