CLA Theorist's
- A theoretical context focus on the thought process behind behaviour
- In relation to a child's mental and emotional development
- Piaget
Cogntivism
- Emphasis is given on the role of enviornmental factors that influence the behaviour of the child
- Speech is "mimicked" by a child from a caregiver/parent
- Skinner
Behaviorism
- Caregivers design speech for children
- A child observes how people speak around it, then apply it to their own lagnauge structure when more lingustically developed
- Vygotsky
Social Interaction
- When born, humans have an in-built capacity to learning langauge
- When the brain is exposed to speech, it will automatically receive it and being to make sense of the utterances being said as it is what its "programmed" to do
- Chomsky
Innateness
- A child's social support network's; the caregivers and the help they provide towards speech acquisition.
- LASS
- Langauge Acquisition Support System
- Bruner
- Anyone who interacts with the child with a more expericned knowledge of speech
- MKO
- More Knowledgable Other
- Linguistic features used to accommodate children
- CDS
Child directed speech
- A list of typical CDS features
-Ferguson
- The baby talk register
- The special restrictive properties of a caretaker play a casual role in child langauge acquisition
- The motherese hypothesis
- Newport, Gleitman and Gleitman
- Instinctive mental capacity enabling acquasition and production of speech
- LAD
- Language Acquisition Device
- Chomsky
- Set of principles upon which all languages build
- Universal Grammar
- Chomsky
- A non-standard utterance from a child based upon logical conclusions about grammar and morpholgy
- Virtuous error
- Chomsky
- Three different stages of a child's acquisition of vocabulary
- Labelling, Packaging, Network building
- Stages of child acquisition of vocabulary
- Aitchinson
- Study of a childs first fifty words produced by children
- Catagorised into four sections:
- Naming things/people, actions/events, describing/modifying, personal/social words
- Nelson
- Classification of functions of utterances of a child
- Potentially non-standard
- Halliday
- Categories of speech functions
- Dore
- Concept of phoneme perception occurring earlier than the ability of the child to produce the target phonemes.
- 'Fis phenomenon'
- Berko and Brown
- Questioning function is initially expressed prosodically with a rising intonation
- Structure closed interogatives with an initial auxilary element before they can employ an intial interogative pronoun
- Stages of interogative acquisition
- Klima and Bellugi
- Children first use 'no' to start an utterance
- Negation then begins to move into the clause
- The child finally achieves the standard form
- Stages of negation
- Bellugi
- Claim's that there is an ideal 'window of time' to acquire language in a linguistically rich environment
- After this period, langauge acquisition become increasingly more difficult with age
- The critical period hypothesis
- Lenneberg
- A research tool designed to test acqusition and application of the morphological system
- Wug test
- Berko Gleason
- Children whose parents speak to them lots during a lot of pre-speech, will develop to have a larger vocabulary than the children whose parents do not speak to them as much
- Pre-speech interaction
- Clarke-Stewart