Chomsky
This is the part of the brain that is supposed to function as a device to learn a language
What is the LAD?
In this stage of cognitive development, children begin to think symbolically and learn to use words and pictures to represent objects.
What is pre-operational?
Language acquisition is a learned behavior through these two concepts.
What is observation and imitation?
This type of issue involves difficulty understanding what others are saying.
What is receptive language issues?
This is the process of acquiring language
What is language acquisition?
This type of grammar assumes that people have an innate knowledge of grammar.
What is universal grammar?
This process describes the advancement of children's’ brains is through neural connections.
What is biological maturation?
This is a process that attempts to modify behavior through the use of positive and negative reinforcement.
What is Operant Conditioning?
A symptom of an SLI is that language difficulties are not caused by this.
What is brain damage or other physical injuries?
She was the exception to feral children not being able to relearn language.
Who is Oxana Malaya?
This NYU study revealed, in support of Chomsky's theory, that the brain follows this when processing language.
What is a hierarchy?
Children's speech began as being this.
What is egocentric?
Skinner's study on this proved operant conditioning effective.
What are animals?
Children with early exposure to sign language frequently shift this, which leads to early vocabulary development.
What is eye gaze?
Feral children generally support these theories.
What are behavioral theories?
This describes the claim that children acquire knowledge for which there is no evidence in the input.
The concrete operational stage takes places during this age range.
What is 7 - 11?
This increases the likelihood that desired behavior will reoccur.
What is positive reinforcement?
The methods of language acquisition in deaf children include auditory-verabl therapy, sign language, manually coded English, and this.
What is cued speech?
The critical period for language acquisition is thought to take place between this range.
What is sometime between age 5 and puberty?
This man refutes Chomsky's theory by arguing against the unlearnibality of languages.
Who is Jeffrey Elman?
In the formal operational stage, children finally able to think in this manner.
What is abstractly?
An individual makes an association between a this and a consequence.
What is a particular behavior?
In teaching deaf children to read, several techniques are used to help the "translation process" such as sandwiching and this.
What is chaining?
They believe people are pre-programmed with the innate ability to develop language.
Who are nativists?