Extra theory - CLA Flashcards
(6 cards)
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Brown and Levinson on world languages, 2009
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Surveyed the world’s languages and found that there was an absence of underlying features that Chomsky’s universal grammar theory would assume should be. Some languages didn’t have nouns and verbs, others didn’t have tenses.
2
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Bandara, 1977
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Emphasised importance of observation and imitation of others while learning a language
3
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Cameron-Faulkner
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Children hear around 7,000 utterances daily
4
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Newport, 1977
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Motherese is very well formed, with only 1 out of 1500 utterances being a disfluency
5
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NSL
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Nicaraguan Sign Language
6
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Ochs and Schleiffen
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Data taken to support interactionism is too representative of white middle class families
