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| Models of Language Development has 2 theories... |
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| human learning and growth is natural and something we're born with |
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| Waht human recieve or don't recieve in their environment is the primary determiner in how they learn and grow. |
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is associated with the Behavioral viewpoint.
It emphasizes the importance of environmental stimuli |
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| proposed that cognitive development was the basis for language development |
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| Norm Chomsky / Psycholinguist |
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| Proposed that humans are born pre-wired to produce language. |
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| Piaget believed imitation was a means for children to increase their interactions with their environment. His idea of imitation included a more active cognitive process on the part of the children |
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| They learn to formulate plans for gaining a desirable end, and they learn to use their own bodies and other objects as tools to carry out those plans. |
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| children discover that objects that are out of sight still exist. |
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| zeroing in on imitating particular aspects of others’ behavior |
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| in which they imitate something or someone they have heard or seen in the past. |
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| Symbolic function has to do with the ability to allow one thing to represent another. Piaget believed that the development of symbolic function could be observed in the changing manner in which the growing child plays. |
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symbolic play,in which children use objects to represent other objects, emerges. For example, a child might place a baby doll in a shoe box – representing a bed and cover it with a Kleenex, representing a blanket. |
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| language development is dependent upon cognitive development. We call this idea cognitive determinism. |
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| Well, the opposing viewpoint to the idea of cognitive determinism is linguistic determinism, an idea set forth by a fellow named Whorf that cognitive development is not possible without language development – that human thought is limited by the quantity and quality of available language constructs. |
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| language acquisition device (LAD) |
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| Chomsky called this “mental organ” the language acquisition device (LAD). McLaughlin suggests that you should think of it as the “black box” of language acquisition. It’s important to note that the LAD is not an identified, observable part of the human body – it is a hypothetical entity proposed by Chomsky |
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| LAD is not an identified, observable part of the human body – it is a hypothetical entity proposed by Chomsky to explain his observations that there are certainlinguistic universals that exist in the languages of human beings everywhere |
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