CLA booklet 1

• Rescorla- under + over extension

  • categorical OE: i.e. daisy for all flowers
  • analogical OE: i.e ball for fruit
  • mismatch statements: i.e. duck when empty pond
• Halliday- functions

  • instrumental: to fulfill a need
  • regulatory: used to command or persuade
  • interactional: used to build relationship
  • personal: used to express sense of self
  • representational: to request or give info
  • heuristic: language to explore the world
  • imaginative: language used to play
• Aitchison- at 18 months...

  • a child will realize that every object or person has a word attached
  • followed by a word explosion
• Nelson- first words

  • 60% of first words are nouns
  • usually social or personal worlds in the child's immediate environment
• Early phonological errors

  • deletion
  • substitution
  • Addition: i.e. dog-doggie
  • Assimilation: swapping a consonant with a similar sounding one dog-gog
  • Reduplication: i.e. 'ma-ma'
  • consonant cluster reduction- removing consonants from a cluster i.e. spider-pider
• Chomsky's LAD

  • language acquisition device
  • human in built capacity to learn language
  • school of thought- nativisim
• Stages of CLA

  1. holophrastic
  2. two word
  3. telegraphic
  4. post- telegraphic
• Deixis

  • words used to point to concepts or things
  • Temporal deixis e.g. this week, today
  • Personal deixis e.g. you, me
  • spatial deixis e.g. here, there