CLA-Child Language Acquisition Flashcards
What is turn-taking?
Where the baby and mother are taking turns in conversation e.g. baby points and parent responds
At what age does a baby start cooing? (open mouthed vowel sounds)
3 months
At what age does a baby start babbling? (repeated sounds of consonant and vowels)
6-12 Months
At what age does a baby start using proto words? (not actual words but used as same meaning like word)
9-12 Months
What are features of Scaffolding?
Recasting, echoing, expansion, labeling, repetition
What is recasting?
Phrasing sentences in different ways, such as making it a question
What is echoing?
Repeating what the child says
What is expansion?
Restating what the child said in a more linguistically sophisticated form
What is labeling?
Providing the name of objects using simplified vocabulary
What is repetition?
Routine use of certain sentence structures such as questions or negative forms
What do behaviourists believe?
Language is developed through imitating others’ language and gaining positive and negative feedback from adults
What do social interactionists believe?
Caregivers are very important in interacting with
What do native theorists believe?
Language is innate; we are ‘pre-programmed’ to acquire it
What do cognitive theorists believe?
Language will grow when children’s ideas about the world develop
Who coined the critical period and what is it?
Lenneberg-Argued language acquisition needs to take place between age of 2 and puberty
Who are two social interactionist theorists?
Bruner, Vygotsky
When is the holophrastic stage (or ‘one-word’)
9-18 months
What is the holophrastic stage?
A child may use a singular word in multiple sentences e.g. I want ‘milk’, ‘I spilled my milk’ and could mean multiple things
When is the two-word stage?
18-30 months
What is an example of two word stage?
Daddy Coat- child pointing to daddy’s coat
When is the Telegraphic Stage?
2 years 6 months/3years onwards
What occurs during the Telegraphic Stage?
Children acquire more grammatical words, used ‘-ed’ for regular past tenses
What is an example of a sentence during the Telegraphic Stage?
‘I show book’, ‘I very tall’, ‘That car?’
How does a child’s language change during the Telegraphic Stage?
I do apple (25 months), I do a apple (28 months), I don’t want an apple (35 months)
