Child Language Acquisition
Speech Development
Trends in Phonological Development
Addition
Adding vowels to seperate consonant clusters.
Add syllables on the end of a word to re-create the CVCV pattern
Substitution
Substituting harder sounds with easier ones
Reduplication
Where a syllable in a word is repeated
Often involves the repetition of a CV syllable
Metathesis
Where sounds in a word are swopped round
Assimulation
Where sounds in a word are made to sound like neighbouring ones
Deletion
Simplyfy pronunciation by deleting certain sounds
Final Constanants
Constanant clusters
Unstressed syllables
Asking Questions
Wh-questions
When daddy coming home?
Rising intonation
Daddy coiming home?
Inversion of auxillary verb
Can daddy come?
Inversion of main verb and subject
Are you late?
Pragmatic Development
Micheal Holiday - Seven Functions of Language
Instrumental
Fulfill a particular need
Interactional
Develop social relationships & ease the process of of interaction/ phatic talk
Personal
To express ideas, opinions and individual identity
Regulatory
Influece others behaviour
Representational
To convey facts and information
Imaginative
To create an imaginary enviroment
Theorist
Skinner
Children learn to speak through imitation & being rewarded or punished
Learn to say went instead of goed
Chomsky
Born with a innate knowledge of the structure of language
Speeds up their language development.
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