Monday, 5 October 2015

General CLA notes:

  • '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
http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/




  • '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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