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First stage of child language development; one word utterance.
Occurs between 12-18 months |
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Around the 18 month stage, children start putting two words together; beginning of syntactical development.
Shows consistent patterns |
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| 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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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... |
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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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| Which theorist said " over generalisations of grammatical rules are used by children, but theses mistakes show an awareness of grammar |
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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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| 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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| Which theorist looked at the differences between children's lexical and semantic development? |
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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 also stated that "........... can be difficult words to use accurately, because they express many things" |
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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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| Which theorist came up with the functions of language? |
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| Which theorist described language functions as speech acts rather than utterances? |
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| Which theorist observed children's play and linked it to both cognitive and social development? |
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| Which theorist introduced the concept of "scaffolding" to refer to the ways adults help children advance |
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| Which theorist devised 4 categorised of children's first words? |
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| Why are Pragmatics important? |
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| 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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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? |
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| What is final consonant deletion? |
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| Where the final consonant in a word is left out |
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| What are Jean's Aitchison's three stages of vocabulary acquisition? |
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Labelling
Packaging
Network building |
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What are Brown and Levinson's postive and negative faces?
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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 |
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| What are Piaget's stages of Cognitive Development? |
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| Sensorimotor, pre operational, concrete operational and formal operational |
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| When does the first stage of questioning begin? |
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| The idea that something can exist outside their immediate surroundings |
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| How might a parent use child directed speech? |
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Using simple vocabulary
Proper nouns
Present tense |
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| What are grammatical words? |
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| 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? |
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Deixis
Ellipsis and substitution
Conjunctions |
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| Describes the way in which certain words associate with others in a semantic way. |
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