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Different stages od child language development
Child language occurrs in different stages
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12th Grade
10/04/2012

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Holophrastic stage
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First stage of child language development; one word utterance.

Occurs between 12-18 months

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Two word utterances
Definition

Around the 18 month stage, children start putting two words together; beginning of syntactical development.

Shows consistent patterns

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Telegraphic Stage
Definition
When a child goes beyond saying three words, and the grammatical words are missed out, for example, a child between 24-36 months would say "cat sat mat".
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Post Telegraphic Stage
Definition

When a child uses more grammatically complex combinations within their speech.

Around 36+ months.

More aware of grammatical rules and irregularities.

Language of an adult, but makes errors

E.g- "it feels shy", instead of "it felt shy"

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Typical words using by a child of 18 months are...
Definition

Names for people

Words referring to food, humans, clothes, vehicles

Properties

Actions

Personal

 

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The theorist who came up with LAD, and believed that all human languages share the same language principles
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Noam Chomsky
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Which theorist said " over generalisations of grammatical rules are used by children, but theses mistakes show an awareness of grammar
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Jean Berko
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Which theorists investigated children's phonological  errors to see how they link to their understanding of words and ideas
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Jean Berko and Roger Brown
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Which theorists said "politeness is encouraged by parents... These words are very important as they feature in Nelson's first 50 words"
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Brown and Levinson
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Which theorist stated the view that language is acquired through social interaction by his idea that children imitate and copy adults
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B.F Skinner
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Which theorist looked at the differences between children's lexical and semantic development?
Definition
Jean Aitchinson
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Which theorist stated "to be able to use and understand negatives requires an awareness of word order and syntax
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Ursula Bellugi
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Ursula Bellugi also stated that "........... can be difficult words to use accurately, because they express many things"
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Pronouns
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Which theorist believed that children are active learners who use their environment and social interactions to shape their language?
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Jean Piaget
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Which theorist came up with the functions of language?
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MAK Halliday
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Which theorist described language functions as speech acts rather than utterances?
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John Dore
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Which theorist observed children's play and linked it to both cognitive  and social development?
Definition
Lev Vygotsky
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Which theorist introduced the concept of "scaffolding" to refer to the ways adults help children advance
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Jerome Butler
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Which theorist devised 4 categorised of children's first words?
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Katherine Nelson
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Why are Pragmatics important?
Definition
A child needs to learn about how pragmatics work in language in order to understand and participate fully in everyday conversation
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What are the two sections of the pre verbal stage?
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Comprehension and Production
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What is a dipthong?
Definition

A subtle change in vowel sound, making two vowel sounds instead of one... For example, how could be pronounced as

 "haa +oo"

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What can a single vowel sound be referred to, as?
Definition
Monophthong
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What is final consonant deletion?
Definition
Where the final consonant in a word is left out
Term
What are Jean's Aitchison's three stages of vocabulary acquisition?
Definition

Labelling

Packaging

Network building

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What are Brown and Levinson's postive and negative faces?

 

Definition

Positive face- the desire to be liked by others

Negative face- the right to be able to do what you want, without anyone trying to stop you

Term
What are Piaget's stages of Cognitive Development?
Definition
Sensorimotor, pre operational, concrete operational and formal operational
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When does the first stage of questioning begin?
Definition
18 months
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What is egocentric?
Definition
The idea  that something can exist outside their immediate surroundings
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How might a parent use child directed speech?
Definition

Using simple vocabulary

Proper nouns

Present tense

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What are grammatical words?
Definition
Words that join up all the others and keep them in order
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What are three types of grammatical connections that could be made?
Definition

Deixis

Ellipsis and substitution

Conjunctions

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What is collocation?
Definition
Describes the way in which certain words associate with others in a semantic way.
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