Terms
Rewarded Desirable Behavior
Positive Reinforcement
Behaviorism and Imitation
Skinner
"Mom, can you color this for me?"
Halliday's Function of Regulatory Language
Three or more words, accurate order, 2-3 y/o
Telegraphic
Sounds of discomfort or reflexive actions 0-4 months
Vegetative
The stage of development between 2-5 years old after which it is difficult to develop proper language.
Critical Period
Language Acquisition Support System (LASS) and Child Directed Speech (CDS) - Critical Period
Bruner
"Can you please make me dinner."
Halliday's Function of Instrumental Language
Two words combined to create simple sytactical structures, 1-2 y/o
Two-Word Holophrastic
Comfort sounds vocal play 4-7 months
Cooing
Discouraged and Undesirable behavior
Negative Reinforcement
Cognitive Theory - Emotional Maturity = Growing Intellectual Ability
Piaget
Born with and learned behavior
Nature vs. Nurture
One word utterances, 12-18 months
One-Word Holophrastic
Babbling
applying regular grammatical endings to words of irregular forms
Virtuous Error
Language Acquisition Device (LAD) and Innate Theory
Chomsky
Up to 2 y/o - sensorimotor: Physical world through senses and object permenance
2-7 y/o - pre-operational: language is egocentric, motor skills develop
7-11 y/o - concrete operational: begin to think logically about concrete events
11+ y/o - operational: abstract reasoning skills develop
Piaget's Stages
Increased awareness of grammatical rules and regularities, tenses are grasped, children start to link clauses, 3 + years
Post-telegraphic
Word-like vocalizations 9-12 months
Protowords
Process used to extend meanings of words
Over-Extension
Interactionist Theory and Scaffolding - Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
Vygotsky
That juice I want
Syntax
Are not words and do not need to be mentioned in grammatical questions, child learning mouth movements of speech.
Cooing and Babbling
mouth, tongue, larnyx, lungs
Speech Organs