Much of the research in child language acquisition has focused on the ____.
What is early language that children produce?
100
Baic structures of ___ and syntax are acquired early.
What is phonology?
100
___ are concerned with how language is represented in the brain.
Who are Neurolinguists?
100
Based of second language acquisition is based on the theoretical linguistic research of Noam Chomsky.
What is Krashen's monitor model?
100
Acquiring a new language is part of a more general process of acculturation.
What is Schumman's Acculturation Model?
200
Since researchers can't directly observe what goes on in a child's brain, they have to rely on ____
What is a child's linguistic output?
200
Who noted that young children acquire the basic rules of language without formal instruction and without extensive exposure to models of language?
Who is Chomsky?
200
____ consider the influences of social and cultural factors on language development.
Who are Sociolinguists?
200
Universal Grammar and the Second Language Acquisition Device apply equally well to children or adults acquiring a second language.
What is Krashen's concept?
200
the degree of remoteness between a member of one social group and the members of another
What is social distance?
300
Who discovered that there were strong parallels between a children's language development and the stages of cognitive development?
Who is Brown?
300
According to Chomsky, humans are born with the basic structures of all human languages already present in the brain.
What is innate knowledge of language Universal Grammar?
300
___ have looked for insights into SLA from both linguistics and psychology.
Who are Psycholinguists?
300
We acquire a new language subconsciously as we receive messages we understand.
What is Acquisition?
300
In situations where social distance neither strongly promotes nor inhibits language acquisition, this may play a crucial role.
What is Psychological Distance?
400
Age where children mutter one word where the word represents complex ideas.
What is one year?
400
1. most children acquire a first language rapidly and without formal instruction
2. they do this with only a limited amount of evidence
3. they do it with only limited feedback
What is Chomsky's claim that most of language is innate?
400
These have contributed to the development of current theories of second language acquisition
What are psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and sociolinguistics?
400
A conscious process in which we focus on various aspects of the language itself.
What is Learning?
400
Motivation, attitude and culture shock
What are Schumann's factors that influence psychological distance?
500
This age is when a child's vocabulary begins to grow rapidly.
What is eighteen months?
500
language is innate comes from the fact that there are certain kinds of errors that children never make
What is the strongest evidence for Chomsky's claim?
500
This is a norm for people living in the United States
What is monolingualism?
500
Krashen claims that both children and adults have the capacity to acquire additional languages because they possess a ____
What is a language acquisition device?
500
Social dominance, integration pattern, enclosure, cohesiveness, size, cultural congruence, attitude, intended leangth of residence
What is Schumman's eight factors that influence social distance?