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Theories of Language Development
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Theories of language development
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Neurotypical language development
Impact of language development on communication and learning
How do children learn to understand and produce language?
Receptive language
Expressive language
Nature and nurture
View One
Innate language ability
Genomic expression
Biological maturation
View Two
Socio-cultural influences
Social Environment influences
Skinner (1957)
Language is learned through example, imitation, and feedback.
Language acquired through social conditioning
Parent feedback
(immediate social environment)
Minds –
requests
Tracts –
Labels
Intraverbals –
more complex language systems
Child overgeneralising / correction
Exploring example social - environment based language assessment tools
Noam Chomsky (1959)
Language is innate.
Innate –
ready to learn a language
Develops as naturally as walking
Children make mistakes adult do not
(imitation)
Generative grammar approach
Novel sentence production, unique word order
(never heard)
Impossible to be exposed to all language directly
Poverty of stimulus argument -
children only exposed to correct grammatical examples.
So why do they produce incorrect examples?
Such as past tense
(-ed)
Novel sentence production
Look at the image below
. Create a sentence to describe what is happening.
Let’s compare our sentences.
Are they all the same? How much variation?
Real-life examples of infant language generation
“More lorry see.”
“More Daddy boo.”
“Want to do dig-dig.”
“Mummy play train.”
“On. Hat on.”
“I want book train.”
Summary:
View one:
Innate language ability
Genomic expression
Biological maturation
View two:
Socio-cultural influences
Social Environment influences