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Child Language Acquisition (CLA)
Flashcards do conjunto (24)
- 1What is Nativism?Children are born with an innate ability to organise the laws of language, which makes it easy for them to learn their native language. Children have language-specific abilities to help master language
Often links to Chomsky, Lenneburg or Pinker - 2What is Behaviourism?Language is acquired through imitation and reinforcement. Children imitate accent and dialect, learn politeness strategies and repeat what they hear around them.
Often links to Skinner - 3What is Cognition?Language acquisition is a conscious and reasoned thinking process , involving the deliberate use of learning strategies.
Often links to Vygotsky or Piaget. - 4What is Social Interaction?Reinforcing the role of social interaction between the developing child and the linguistically knowledgeable adults. Based on socio-cultural theory.
Often links to Bruner - 5Who wrote in 'The Articulate Mammal' that Chomsky was wrong?Jean Aitchison
- 6What is grammatical overgeneralisation?application of the plural '-s' endings to nouns, which already have plurals. E.g: 'man' becomes 'mans' instead of 'men'
- 7What is semantic overextension?Word has a much broader and general meaning to it.
E.g: calling all round things apples or all women being called 'mummy' - 8What is semantic under extension?When a word is given a narrower meaning. than it should have..
E.g: a child may only use 'dog' when they see their family dog and not any other dog. - 9What are exaggerating prosodics?Exaggerated intonation patterns and slightly higher frequencies, and greater pitch intonation
- 10What is recasting?phrasing sentences in different ways, such as making it a question.
- 11What is echoing?Repeating what the child says.
- 12What is expansion?Repeating what the child says in a more linguistically sophisticated form.
- 13What is expatiation?expounding further on the word by giving more information.
- 14What is labelling?providing the name of objects, using simplified vocabulary.
- 15What is over articulation?using more precise sounds contained in words- stretching out words and sounding out 'super vowels'.
- 16What is the holophrastic/ one-word stage?One word utterances are made and this occurs between 12-18 months.
- 17What is the two-word stage?two word combinations are made and this occurs between 18 - 24months
- 18What is the telegraphic stage?Three of more word combinations are made, but hardly any articles, such as 'The', are present. Occurs between 24-36 months.
- 19What is the post-telegraphic stage?Remaining function words are acquired and used accurately. Verb tenses can be manipulated correctly. Occurs between 30+ months.
- 20Who discussed negative formation in children?Ursula Bellugi and there are 3 stages to this process.
- 21What are Bellugi's stages of pronoun formation?1- Use their own name
2- Recognises the 'I/me' pronouns but are used in different places in the sentence
3- uses them according to whether 'I' is the subject or object within the sentence. - 22What did Roger Brown's study on two-word sentences demonstrate?Children from all cultures and countries make the same relationships between grammatical concepts.
- 23What is overgeneralisation?The process of extending the application to a rule to items that are excluded from the language norm.
E..g.- the verb tense '-ed' in "I goed" or "I runned" used by a child - 24What is deletion?
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- Revision for CLA AQA A Level English Language
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- HelloI'm Studying · mai 2021
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