Spoken Language Theories Flashcards

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Halliday & Dore

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Language is used because it fulfills a purpose

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2
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Instrumental

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Fulfills a need

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3
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Regulatory

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Influence behavior of others

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4
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Interactional

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Develop and maintain relationships

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5
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Personal

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Express feelings, opinions or identity

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6
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Representational

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Convey facts and information

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7
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Imaginative

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Tell stories

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8
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Heuristic

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Learn about the world

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9
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Labelling

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Naming something

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10
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Repeating

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Repeating an adult

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11
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Answering

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Responding to someone

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12
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Requesting action

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Asking for something

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13
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Calling

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Shouting for attention

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14
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Greeting

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Greeting someone

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15
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Protesting

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Objecting to a request

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16
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Practicing

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Language not addressed to anyone present

17
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Skinner

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Behaviorism - Operant Conditioning - Children learn by copying

18
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Skinner Criticism

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Chomsky - Child-directed language is impoverished
Berko - Wugs

19
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Chomsky

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Nativism - innate LAD extracts rules from overheard speech, contains knowledge of Universal Grammar

20
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Chomsky criticism

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Colourless green dreams sleep furiously
Genie - Isolate, never learnt grammar

21
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Piaget

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Cognitivism - Object Permanence, Classification, Seriation

22
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Piaget Criticism

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Atypical cognitive development, unimpeded language development, vice versa

23
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Bruner

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Input Theory - Child-Directed Language - LASS supports LAD

24
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Vygotsky

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Input Theory - Scaffolding, MKO, Zone of Proximal Development

25
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Input Theory Criticism

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Tsimane people of Bolivia don’t use child-directed language

26
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Jean Butler

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Studied Genie - Isolate who never learnt how to use grammar (Chomsky critique)

27
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Bard & Sachs

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Studied Jim - child of deaf & mute parents - only learnt via school (Chomsky critique)