EXAM 1 ch 2 Flashcards
Skinners Behaviorist Theory
Nurture Theory
All learning is the result of operant conditioning
Children learn language as adults reinforce their
verbalizations.
Vygotsky’s Social Interactionist Theory
Nurture Theory
Concepts introduced in a social context and in time they’re internalized as a psychological context.
Piaget’s Cognitive Theory
Nurture Theory
Cognitive development before Speech development
Chldren are egocentric (see things from their perspective)
Intentionality model (Bloom)
Nurture Theory
The tension of trying to communicate Intentions drive language development
Competition Model (MacWhinney)
Nurture Theory
Language learned from Reliable input, repetition strengthens representation
Usage-based theory
Nurture Theory
Children understand peoples intentions and imitate it to learn language
Modularity theory (Fodor)
Nature Inspired
Localization of language in specific modules in the brain
different modules can work together to make combo functions
Universal Grammar- Noam Chomsky
Nature Inspired
Born w. gen grammar rules & categories common to all languages.
Input gives them Parameters of their language
Syntactic bootstrapping:
Nature Inspired
extralinguistic cues teach the child the meaning of new verbs
Semantic Bootstrapping:
Nature Inspired
children observe events around them and then deduce grammatical structures from the words they hear
Prosodic Bootstrapping:
Nature Inspired
infants are sensitive to the
acoustic patterns of their native language
Connectionism Theory
Nature or Nurture Inspired
Language is organized in a network containing nodes and connections. It undergoes constant change in response to language input
