- 'Language defies you as being human'
- 'From birth, language is in our lives'
- Humans are the only individuals on the planet who can speak
- Expressing thought processes unique to yourselves
- Children use minimal effort when speaking
- We are still unsure as to how we speak
- Dr Deb Roy- speech home project
- Children use determiners when they are unsure how to label objects e.g 'dat'
- 2 word stage=syntax
- Adults unconsciously simplify lexis in order to converge
- Every child has a caregiver and this is normally the parents
- Semantic awareness outstrips phonological ability
- At five years old the child should know 5000 lexis
- Adults use 15,000 words a day
- Despite decades of research, we are no closer to discovering how we acquire language
- Children can often identify objects and nouns but not actions and verbs
- William Fifer- babies
- Noam Chomsky- LAD
- 'Language defies you as being human'
- Cognition theory-piaget
- We have an innate ability to speak
- The case of genie-the wild child
- Fox p-2 part of your DNA
Telegraphic stage: incomplete syntax/utterance, struggle with question structures, struggle with negatives, use the negative lexis 'no' for negatives
Caregiver: Skinners reinforcement theory, unconsciously guiding the child's language
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