Child Language Acquisition~ Spoken

Child Language Acquisition~ Spoken

1. Syntactic development

   • One-word stage
   • Understanding
   • Two-word stage
   • Meaning of two-word utterances
     • THEORY: BLOOM (1973)
   • Telegraphic stage
   • Rapid progress
   • Acquisition of inflections
     • THEORY: CRUTTENDEN (1979)
     • THEORY: BERKO (1958)
   • Over generalisation
   • Questions
   • Negotiation

2. Phonological acquisition

   • Substitution
   • Assimilation
   • Deletion
   • Consonant cluster reductions
   • THEORY: BERKO AND BROWN
   • THEORY: MICHAEL TOMASELLO AND THE USAGE-BASED THEORY OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

3. Role of the caregiver

   • Higher, melodic pitch
   • More frequent and longer pauses
   • Slower and clearer speech
   • Repetition
   • Grammatically simpler sentences
   • More questions
   • The use of diminutives
   • More frequent use of plural pronouns
   • Expansion
   • Re-casts
   • Politeness features
   • Mitigated imperitives
   • MOTHERESE
     • Characterised into 3 responses

4. Pragmatic and discourse development in children

   • Grice's Maxims
   • THEORY: Sinclair and Coulthard

5. Lexical/semantic acquisition

   • Overextension
   • Underextension
   • Mismatching
   • Relationships

6. THEORY: M.A.K HALLIDAY- 7 FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE

   • Instrumental
   • Regulatory
   • Interactional
   • Personal
   • Representational
   • Heuristic
   • Imaginative

7. Morphology

   • Bond and free morpheme