theorists

• nativist theory - Noam Chomsky 


  language is innate. we are programmed to acquire it. LAD - explains how children could learn language so quickly

  criticism - many linguistics disagree with Chomsky because LAD has never been found on brain imaging
• BF skinner - behaviourism 


  imitation and reinforcement operating conditioning and positive and negative reinforcement
• vygotsky - social 


  learn through conversation. LASS - parents assist children in social conversations. zone of proximal development - difference between what a learner can do with help and without it
• Halliday - 7 functions of language 


  asked why children use language 1) instrumental 2) regulatory 3)interactional 4) personal 5) heuristic 6) imaginative 7) representational. If Richard Is Present His Intelligence Radiates
• cognitive - piaget 


  cant learn to speak without learning the concepts of what they're speaking about first. object permanence - the ability to understand objects still exist even though not in sight
• piaget - ecocentric speech 


  children speak to themselves to develop langauge
• critical age - lenneberg


  if speech hasn't been acquired by 7, they will never catch up
• clark

  questions -

  1)uses rising intonation to form question.

  2)'wh' questions: what, where,why,when.

  3)connected to auxiliary verb.
• bellugi


  negatives:

  1)no/not at beginning.

  2)no/not in middle.

  3)connected to auxiliary verb.

  pronouns:

  1)use first name,

  2)subject/ object inversion (mistaking she/her),

  3)correct usage
• brown:


  inflections:

  1)-ing,

  2)-s,

  3)auxiliary - be
• cazden


  1)words learnt, not rules.

  2)rules learnt.

  3)correct inflections used
• cazden - correctness 


  correcting a child doesn't help language development as much as continuing the conversation