Child Language
Acquisition key theories test
- Whose theory stated we have an inbuilt sense of grammar and what did he call it?
- What are two examples of overgeneralisation?
- Describe what is happening when children use these examples (use terminology):
- Whose theory was that children learn language through imitation?
- What strategies did he use to ensure the rats learned that adults use when interacting with children (the terms for praise and correction)?
- Whose theory was that you need interaction to learn language?
- What was the case study that supported this theory (a boy’s name and what his situation was)?
- Whose theory was that children can’t learn to use language about something that they don’t understand?
- What is the name of that theory?
- What is the acronym for the way which adults speak to children?
- Give three examples of ways in which adults use CDS:
1) Chompsky and he called it a LAD.
ReplyDelete2) Saying "runned" instead of "ran" and "mouses" instead of "mice". Over generalisation of the past tense rule and the rule for plurals.
3) They are applying standard grammatical rules that apply to regular verbs and nouns to irregular verbs and nouns due to the change in tense or pluralisation.
4) Skinner
5) Positive and negative reinforcement
6) Bruner
7) A hearing boy was born to deaf parents and he didn't acquire language because they just put him in front of the TV.
8) Piaget
9) Cognitive Development
10) CDS
11) Higher pitch, repetition of utterances and more interrogatives.