Before the 1970's, research emphasized similarities among children for language acquisition. This man's linguistic theory was a major influence on child language research.
What is Noam Chompsky's theory of transformational syntax?
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Some researchers suggest that episodes of this may contribute more to the acquisition of Referential Language.
What is shared attention to objects?
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Middle class American mothers see naming as a sensible and intelligent way to use language, while other mothers may view naming as "talking to no purpose."
What are cultural differences?
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Children who learn to produce language at earlier ages may be doing this.
What is: Producing forms they do not understand.
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There is some evidence that children's early Lexical preferences are reflected in this.
What is their first word combinations?
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This early lexicon is dominated by words for objects.
What is Referential lexical development?
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A good deal of children's referential language may originate in these certain opportunities.
What are routinized naming games, pointing and naming, touching and naming?
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Referential and expressive children acquire these at the same age.
What are the first 50 words?
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These two problems have been raised against Nelson's new approach to the study of language development.
What is parental bias in reporting words for objects and how to interpret the referential and expressive distinction of the use of the words?
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These children have fewer oject labels but more pronouns, function words and phrases in their speech.
Who are children with Expressive lexicons?
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Nelson observed that these kinds of contexts that make up a child's daily life support the language that is learned.
What is book reading, eating, dressing, playing with toys, singing songs, nursery rhymes, etc.
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Some children are likely to follow an orderly set of phonological rules while others operate with fairly sloppy phonological system.
What is a cautious versus a risk-taking approach.
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These three things are considered possible source of individual differences in language learning.
What are temperamental differences, hereditary dofferences, and input differences?
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In the 70's, this was a major change in the interest of child language researchers.
What is interest in the form and function of early words and sentences?
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Shorter utterances, exaggerated intonation, pauses, repetitions, and stress patterns describe this kind of speech.
What is Child-Directed Speech?
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Idioms and situational utterances are examples of this kind of speech.
What is Phrasal speech?
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A consistent finding for the relationship between SES and the rate of vocabulary development is this.
What is the amount of language the children had heard?
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For early sentences, Children tend to use THIS strategy to combine content words and THIS strategy for using pronouns in their utterences.
What is a Pronominal strategy and a Nominal strategy.
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Some children begin to talk around their first birthday, whereas others may wait another 6 months or more before words appear. Some children exhibit a 'vocabulary spurt.'
What are the differences of children in rate of learning?
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For bilingual learners, there is evidence of variation due to these two things.
What is: Cross-linguistic interactions and amount of exposure to each language.
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These two factors influence different learning styles and are a matter of individual expression.
What are cultural and environmental influences?
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More talkative mothers are more likely to do this.
What is: use more different words,talk about a wider variety of topics, engage children in more fantasy paly, naratives, and explanations.
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Some researchers argue that children's use of phrasal speech serves this important function.
What is: that it eases the burden of constructing utterances from scratch each time we have something to say in predicatable situations.