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What is the pre-verbal stage and when does it occur?

  • First stage of language - features include crying and cooing to discover mouth sounds and babbling as infants practice articulating sounds.

  • Occurs at 0-12 Months

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What is the holophrastic stage and when does it occur?

  • Second stage of language acquisition - single words that convey entire ideas or intentions.

  • Relying on concrete nouns and non-communication (gestures and pointing)

  • Occurs at 12-18 months.

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What is the two-word stage and when does it occur?

  • Third stage of language - children are able to use two-word combinations like ‘want milk’

  • Simple speech begins to show understanding of relationship between words

  • Occurs at 18-24 months

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What is the telegraphic stage and when does it occur?

  • Fourth stage of language - children begin to use short sentences t produce more complex utterances.

  • Includes essential words and has grammatical elements required for structural accuracy

  • Occurs at 24-30 months (2 years)

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What is the post-telegraphic stage and when does it occur?

  • Fifth stage of language - child’s speech becomes increasingly like adult speech

  • Features include formation of pronouns, auxiliary verbs, deeper understanding of pragmatics (politeness, turn-taking etc)

  • Occurs at 30+ months

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What are Halliday’s 7 functions of initial language (1973)

  • Instrumental - Fulfilling a need (“up”/”dwink”)

  • Regulatory - Commanding or persuading (“bed!”/”go away”)

  • Interactional - Strengthening relations (“love you”/”mama”)

  • Personal - Developing identity and opinions (“no like it”/”me is good”)

  • Representational - Giving info and knowledge (“scared”/”help"/”where dada?”)

  • Heuristic - Gaining knowledge about surroundings (“where it go?”)

  • Imaginative - Play, imagination and jokes (“abwacadabwa”/”this my baby”)

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Chomsky’s approach to language

  • Nativist approach (1957) - children born with innate ability to learn any language

  • Biological, not behavioural

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Skinner’s approach to language

  • Behavioural approach (1957) - acquire language through imitation

  • Positive/negative reinforcement in language

  • Operant conditioning

  • Behavioural, not biological

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Piaget’s approach to language

  • The language and thought of a child (1926)

  • Child cannot articulate concepts they don’t understand

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Piaget’s stages

  • Sensorimotor (0-2y) - Child is egocentric, interacts with environment

  • Pre-operational (2-6/7y) - uses imagination, remains egocentric, doesn’t understand other’s POV

  • Concrete operational (6/7-11/12) - No longer egocentric, capable of logical thought

  • Formal operational (11-16+) - Abstract thinking, logical thoughts

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Bruner’s approach to language

Social Interactionist (1983)

  • Children learn to use language to get what they want

  • Lang Acquisition Support System (LASS) - Parental support - provides imitation model

  • Scaffolding - Support for child, enables child to gradually develop speech

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Aitchison’s approach to language

Acquisition stages (1987)

  1. Labelling - Link between word and sound used

  2. Packaging - over/under extension leads to understanding range of a word

  3. Network Building - Grasping concepts of words (hyper/hyponms)

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Vygotsky’s Scaffolding theory

  • Doing things for child allows them to develop and for adult to act as ‘more knowledgeable other’

  • Adult can then direct child to move within zone of proximinal development

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Tomasello (2003) language theory

  • Ability t learn language is social AND cognitive

  • 9-12 = children use pattern forming to learn functions and forms

  • Able to build generalisations about how words form large syntactic constructions

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What is assimilation?

Use sounds that are easier to produce to replace other sounds in a word (s instead of sh in fish) = substitution

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What is consonant cluster reduction?

Subconsciously reducing consonant sounds in a word (lipstick becomes liptick)

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What is weak syllable deletion?

Removing weak sounds in a word ( Porridge becomes Porge)

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What is consonant deletion?

At beginning or end or a word, consonant is removed (fish becomes fis)

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What are nasals?

  • Sounds made by air forced through nasal cavity

  • (n/m/ng sounds)

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What are fricatives?

  • Sounds made by turbulent air

  • (z in zebra, f in fish)

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What are affricates?

  • Sound begins as a plosive and ends as fricative

  • (J in joy, ch in church)

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What are approximants?

  • Consonant that can sound like a vowel

  • (w in wet, r in right, y in yes)

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What is articulatory ease?

Children will naturally choose words and sounds that are easiest to pronounce - shows why ‘dada’ is easier to pronounce than ‘mama’

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What are proto words?

  • Words that a child will use to represent something else

  • Nana = banana / mama = mum / dada = dad

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Types of babbling

  • Reduplicated - Repeat same syllable (mamama)

  • Variegated - Combine different syllables (googoobaa)

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What is over/under extension?

  • Over - Uses one word to refer to too many things (ball used to describe dog and squirrel)

  • Under - Uses one word to refer to too little things (kitty used to describe family cat but not other cats)

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What is CDS

  • Child Directed Speech - Way of caregivers to speak to children, known as baby-talk.

    Features:

    • High pitched/melodic voice

    • Simpler sentences

    • Talking in 3rd person about self

    • tag questions and repeating q/a

    • Expansion - caregiver expands on child’s comment

    • Recast - adult agrees with proto word but corrects or repeats it

    • Multigated imperatives - shall we/ I wonder/ why don’t we