Theories of Language Acquisition/Development
The following components part of a theory: Stimulus, Response, Reinforcement?
What is Behaviorism?
From 30 to 36 months, a child begins to understand and produce these words: he/his, she/her, they/them
What are pronouns?
In this experimental methodology, the experimenter asks the child to fill in this blank, "This is a tuke. Now there is another one. There are two of them. There are two ___"
What is The Wug Test?
This happens when children make a quick, preliminary assessment of new, unfamiliar words meaning in a given context.
What is fast mapping?
The two forms of English past tense verbs.
What are regular and irregular?
The input is not rich enough for the relevant generalizations to be learned. (The primary linguistic data is degenerate in quality.)
What is Poverty of the Stimulus?
From 3 to 6 months, an infant begins making this subset of sounds in their target language that is not associated with meaning.
What is babbling?
In this paradigm, infants sit on their parent's lap and are trained to listen to auditory stimuli from each side of a booth with red flashing lights. They are then presented with new stimuli where they will indicate preference by looking towards that light.
What is Conditioned Head Turn Paradigm?
When a sentence has more than one interpretation, this means that sentence contains ______.
What is ambiguity?
Units added to a word, which do not change its meaning or part of speech.
What are bound morphemes?
According to Usage-based theories, children come equipped to language acquisition with these two general skills.
What are intention reading and pattern finding?
In this age range a baby may begin saying their first words.
What is 10 to 14 months?
In this design, the child's role is to listen to the short stories presented by an experimenter and accept or reject a statement that is presented.
What is Truth Value Judgement Task?
Promising, requesting, questioning, referring, describing, demanding, threatening etc. are all kinds of ______?
What are speech acts?
1. verb stem + PAST → [verb + t/d]
2. verb stem + -d = PAST tense
(one answer for each)
1. What is a schema?
2. What is a rule?
According to this theory, language is believed to be a social phenomenon, and that communication (and not just input) is crucial to language learning.
What is Social-Pragmatic Theory?
How many words does a child learn per day from 2 to 6 years of age?
What is 10?
The experimental design that is a kind of 'habituation' procedure that detects stimulus discrimination.
What is High Amplitude Sucking?
The three components to a speech act are _____, _____, _____ ?
What are locutionary force, illocutionary force, and perlocutionary force?
Has long, complex words with multiple inflectional and derivational morphemes.
What is a polysynthetic language?
Three major objections to Usage-Based Theories: it cannot handle ____(simple; complex) constructions, it cannot handle ______ of the ______, it does not specify how the process is _______.
What are complex, poverty of the stimulus, and constrained?
At this age range, a child begins to correctly use the morphemes that allow them to address outside of the present.
What is 54 to 60 months?
In this design, the experimenter says to the child: "Ask the puppet if the dog that is sleeping is on the blue bench".
What is Elicited Production Task?
Good conversations occur when certain pragmatic principles are followed. They are also known as Grice’s Maxims which includes ____, _____, _____, _____.
What are quantity, quality, relation/relevance, and manner?
Correct production of a few forms → Overregularization → Correct production of regular and irregular forms
What is U-shaped development [of morphology]?