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Usage Based Language Acquisition (Tomasello & others): Children learn…
Usage Based Language Acquisition (Tomasello & others): Children learn their first language by using social and cognitive skills
Intention Reading: A summary term for a broad range of pre-linguistic skills that enable a child to understand the communicative intentions of the mature language user
Understanding communicative intention:Understands that the mature language user wants to communicate a message. The child understands that the parent wants them to look at the object they are pointing at because they have an important message they want to communicate about that object
Joint Attentional Frame:The child looks at what the mature language user wants them to look at The parent says "plane" while pointing at plane. The child turns to look at the object the parent is pointing at. They are now sharing a joint attentional frame which allows the child to understand what "plane" means
Role Reversal Imitation: Watch parents closely and copy what they do while practicing vocabulary and utterances that go with that activity
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Pattern Finding: Analyzing the utterances that you hear mature users produce for patterns so you can figure out the rules and produce comprehensible utterances
Organizing words into concrete categories (e.g. All 4 legged furry animals are doggies) which gets restructured as they receive new information (dogs bark and cats meow). How do children figure out the rules of the language? They identify patterns about the utterances the they hear and make generalizations. When talking about more than one object, the child learns to add a plural -s, (e.g. books, childs) until they encounter exceptions to the rule or constraints (e.g. children) which causes them to restructure their understanding about the plural -s rule)