CLA Flashcards
PAPER 1 (55 cards)
deletion
a sound is removed
‘mingo’ for flamingo
torrance
assessment leads to better writing, accuracy is important
rescorla
3 kinds of overextension
- categorical - applies a label to everything in a category (dog for all animals)
- analogical - applies same label to something physically / visually similar (tomato to a ball)
- relational - applies a somewhat related label (pen for paper)
consonant cluster reduction
removal of consonant sounds
‘ra-it’ for rabbit
social constructivism
children learn the rules of language and learn to construct it
Tomasello - children listen to language and find patterns to develop schema
Braine - children use frames / slots
- e.g the frame for having completed an action is ‘I XXX-ed’ and will full in the verb appropriately.
24 months - 2 years
telegraphic stage
just enough words to communicate
increase in vocabulary
word classes often omitted
- where we go?
- I wear jacket
at end of stage language becomes more complex, adding negatives, inflections and conjunctions
Pre birth
Children can hear people talking at 16-18 weeks (in womb)
mehler
babies recognise their parents’ language when they were born
omission
letter missed out
berko
wug test -
shown fictional monsters and asked to finish sentence
e.g - this is a Wug, there are now two ______
75% of children (4-5) selected the right ending
transposed letters
written the wrong way round
18 - 24 months
two word stage
verbs emerge
syntax develops
- subject and verb (Dad laugh)
- verb and object (bark dog)
- noun phrases (warm blanket)
- verb phrases (run far)
psycholinguistic approach
decodes words based on context (other words in sentence, pictures etc)
Stage 3 of language acquisition
Babbling
6 months
reduplicated (baba / dada)
variegated (daba / dimba)
phonemic expansion (lots of phonemes)
phonemic contraction (then only used phonemes from own language)
whole-word approach
encouraged to look and say
relies on children memorising large numbers of words
diminutisation
form of addition to make diminutives
‘doggy’
addition
adds new thing into pronunciation
‘ cat - o’
Stage 6 of language acquisition
first word
usually dog, cat, mum, dad etc
moves to holophrastic stage
Snow
motherese
- high pitch
- greater range of intonation
- use of interrogatives and declaratives
assimilation
uses a sound from earlier / later in the word to make it easier to say
‘lellow’ instead of yellow
Stage 4 of language acquisition
melodic utterances
9 months
intonation is used
experiments with rhythm and tone
belugi
child fronts negatives when learning to negate
- no wants food
graphemic cluster substitution
a group of letters is replaced by others
post telegraphic stage
full use of the english language including contractions and irregular verbs