theories of child language acquisition (see 8.1)
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Theories of Child Language Acquisition (see 8.1). * Imitation * Reinforcement * Innateness * Active construction of a grammar * Connectionism * Social interactionism. IMITATION. Children learn language by imitating words/sentences spoken around them. True, but only in part. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Theories of Child Language Acquisition
(see 8.1)
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*Imitation
*Reinforcement
*Innateness
*Active construction of a grammar
*Connectionism
*Social interactionism
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IMITATIONIMITATION• Children learn language by imitating
words/sentences spoken around them.• True, but only in part.• Cannot explain systematic errors children
make- departures from adult forms.• Cannot account for production (and
perception) of novel utterances• Cannot explain situation involving
disability affecting ability to speak, which, once overcome, results in realization of what has been learned.
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Reinforcement
• Parents’ correction of errors-not as common as we think; usually don’t help.
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Innateness Hypothesis
• Children are born with, at minimum, the ability to acquire any language and, possibly, the actual knowledge of linguistic universals.
• Critical age hypothesis: after an particular age is reached, acquisition of a language becomes much more difficult (if not impossible).
• Be familiar with support for / arguments against the Critical Age Hypothesis in its strongest form.
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Active construction of a grammar
• Ability to develop rules is innate
• Children construct the rules based on exposure to input from the adult language.
• These rules are built on and modified as a result of new input.
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Connectionism
• Language learning involves the creation of neural connections in the brain as a product of children listening to and using language around them.
• Learning is driven by statistical information. That is, generalizations can be arrived at on the basis of frequency of structures of a certain kind in the input, rather than the existence of an innate ability to invent rules.
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Social interaction theory
• Not incompatible with statistical learning and rule construction theories.
• Just stresses the extent to which language acquisition depends on interactions between children and their older peers and care givers.
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PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL ACQUISTIONACQUISTION
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(1) infant speech perception. Evidence from studies.
(2) early vocalizations: crying, cooing, etc.
(3) BABBLINGBABBLING begins at 4 -6 months. Both vowels and consonants are produced, often in short sequences. Canonical babbling (7-10 months) occurs when syllables are repeated in sequence. Variegated babbling (10-12 months) occurs when different syllables occur in sequence.
* functions* cross-linguistic tendencies
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(4) 10-12 months: child is acquiring a variety of speech sounds, including but not limited to those occurring in the sound inventory of native language.
evidence that as first words begin to appear, knowledge of phonemic system is not yet intact.
(5) 1.5 - 2 years: becomes more necessary for phonemes to be acquired in order to be able to attribute meaning to random clustering of sounds.
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Acquisition of phonology: common views / points of debate
• Continuity vs. discontinuity • Perception and production• Usefulness of relational vs. independent
system accounts.• Phonological universals and emergence of
phonology.
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Order in which speech sounds are mastered: general trends...
1 - vowels acquired before consonants
2- stops acquired first among consonants
3- labials often acquired first and interdentals last.
4- new phonemic contrasts manifest themselves first in word-initial position first.
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COMMON PHONETICS PROCESSES IN CHILDREN’S SPEECH...
1 - deletion 1 - deletion
2- substitution2- substitution
3- assimilation3- assimilation
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1. Deletion
1. stov tov; sml ml; dsk dk• [s] + consonant sequences - delete
[s]
2. tray tay; brum bum; slm sm• stop + liquid - delete liquid3. frm fm; slip sip• fricative + liquid: delete liquid4. bmp bp; dnt dt • nasal + voiceless stop - delete nasal
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2. Substitution
1. lajn yajn; rejk wejk; lf yf • gliding
2. si ti; zibr dibr • continuant becomes stop3. bim bib; pajn pajd• denasalization
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3. Assimilation
1. tl dl; pg bg; sup zup • voicing assimilation of initial
consonants
2. dagi gagi; slf flf ; bebi bibi • total assimilation (vowel/consonant)
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Syllables• In earliest stages maximally simple syllables
tend to be produced (without codas, without clusters).
• Asymmetries between syllable-initial and syllable final position
• Unstressed syllable truncation is a common process.
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PERCEPTION v. PRODUCTIONPERCEPTION v. PRODUCTION:
child's ability to perceive phonemic contrast precedes their ability to produce them.
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Relationship between stages of acquisition in children and crosslinguistic grammars.
• Rules which present themselves in stages of child phonological development often resemble very closely those attested crosslinguistically in adult languages, even when absent from the adult language being learned.
• Do you find that this supports a particular theory of language acquisition?
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ONE EXAMPLE
• UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR = SET OF UNIVERSAL CONSTRAINTS
• LANGUAGES DIFFER IN CONSTRAINT RANKINGS, RATHER THAN CONSTRAINTS THEMSELVES.
• LEARNING A PHONOLOGICAL GRAMMAR IS ALL ABOUT LEARNING THE RIGHT RANKING OF CONSTRAINTS.
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MORPHOLOGICAL MORPHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTDEVELOPMENT
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Developmental sequence of
nonlexical morphemes
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1. -ing
2. plural -s
3. possessive -s
4. the, a
5. past tense -ed
6. 3rd person sg. -s
7. auxiliary be
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What determines this sequence?
1.frequency?2.Word-position3.Relationship b/t form and meaning4.Syllabicity5.Exceptions6.Allophonic invariance
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SYNTACTIC DEVELOPMENT
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Stages of development
0. First words
1. One word stage
2. Two word stage
Telegraphic speech
3. Later stages
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Syntactic development: specific examples of gradual acquisition of adult constructions.
NEGATION: stages
QUESTIONS: stages
SEE DISCUSSION IN BOOK
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Semantic development
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Rapid vocabulary expansion
Largest category of words in child’s early vocabulary?
How do children “guess” meanings of unknown words?
Common semantic errors
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ACQUISTION OF MEANING
common errors include undergeneralization, overgeneralization and complexive concepts.
After child acquires close to 100 words, the overgeneralized meanings narrow and the undergeneralized meanings extend.
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Later acquired concepts• Relational terms
• Deictic expressions