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Child Language Acquisition

Children learn to speak through various developmental stages and theories. Key contributors to the study of child language acquisition include Skinner and Chomsky. Skinner posited that children learn language through imitation and reinforcement, while Chomsky argued that children are born with an innate understanding of language structure.

Child Language Acquisition

Learning To Write

Main topic

Child Language Acquisition

Speech Development

Theorist
Chomsky

Subtopic

Born with a innate knowledge of the structure of language

Speeds up their language development.

Skinner

Learn to say went instead of goed

Children learn to speak through imitation & being rewarded or punished

Pragmatic Development
Micheal Holiday - Seven Functions of Language

Imaginative

To create an imaginary enviroment

Representational

To convey facts and information

Regulatory

Influece others behaviour

Personal

To express ideas, opinions and individual identity

Interactional

Develop social relationships & ease the process of of interaction/ phatic talk

Instrumental

Fulfill a particular need

Asking Questions
Inversion of main verb and subject

Are you late?

Inversion of auxillary verb

Can daddy come?

Rising intonation

Daddy coiming home?

Wh-questions

When daddy coming home?

Trends in Phonological Development
Deletion

Simplyfy pronunciation by deleting certain sounds

Unstressed syllables

Constanant clusters

Final Constanants

Assimulation

Where sounds in a word are made to sound like neighbouring ones

Metathesis

Where sounds in a word are swopped round

Reduplication

Often involves the repetition of a CV syllable

Where a syllable in a word is repeated

Substitution

Substituting harder sounds with easier ones

Addition

Add syllables on the end of a word to re-create the CVCV pattern

Adding vowels to seperate consonant clusters.