A Level Glossary
The earliest for of the english language, brought to Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century.
Old English
He observed behavoirs of mice in a box using a lever for food pellets, and later electrical currents
B.F. Skinner
Innate theory relies on the concept of _________ grammar.
universal
When the child can only think of the world in relation to themselves, they are _______.
egocentric
the simple style of speech used by those who look after infants is ______.
caretaker language
A word adopted from one language to another without translation. Example: "kindergarten" in the english language
Loanword
In his experiments, Pavlov explored how _____ respond to hearing the sound of a bell before being given food.
dogs
He criticized the behavoirist theory of language development and proposed the Innate theory
Noam Chomsky
The original cognitive theorist was _______.
Jean Piaget
The stage where children express themselves using short sentences using only key information is the _____.
Telegraphic stage
When air passes through the nose to make a sound. Example: /m/ and /n/
Nasal
Behavoirist theorists believed language acquisition happens through _________.
conditioning
Chomsky believed that our brains have a ____________, which allows children to develop language skills.
LAD (Language Acquisition Device)
What happens in the earliest cognitive stage, the Sensorimotor stage?
Children are absorbing the world through their senses.
When a child applies the word "daddy" to all men.
Overextension
The view that language should have a strict set of rules that must be obeyed in speech and writing
Prescriptivism
Praise or approval expressed towards a childs behavoir is considered ________.
reinforcement
Eric Lenneberg proposed a theory of a window of early to mid-childhood, when language learning is crucial. This is called the _______.
critical period
Explain the concept of "conservation".
the ability to see that a quantity will stay the same when it is put in different shaped containers.
When children apply regular grammatical endings to words with irregular forms Example: He runned to school
Virtuous Errors
Words for the categories into which hyponyms may be grouped.
Hypernyms
He is considered the father of behavoirism
John B. Watson
Lenneberg's ideas of the critical period were broadened a bit to a window of birth to puberty, considered the ______ period where a human is more skilled in acquiring language.
sensitive
Name the four stages of cognitive development
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, Formal Operational
The five main stages of language acquisition are...
Before Birth, Babbling, Holophrastic, Telegraphic, Post-Telegraphic