Child Language Acquisition PLAN

CLA PLAN

Intro

                AO3 – Context, age, surroundings, relationships

                AO2 – Telegraphic/ Post telegraphic

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                Linguistic evidence of telegraphic/post telegraphic stage

·         Conjunctions/ Complex/ Compound utterances (post telegraphic)

·         Structure of what they say – simple

·         Spontaneous stage – features textually influenced by the context

·         Post telegraphic – rarely omits lexis, utterances are complete

·         Some examples of complex syntax

·         Address terms/ pronouns – post telegraphic (he/she/us/we)

·         Struggle asking questions – intonation to show that it’s a question (phonological features)

·         Turn taking (pragmatics)

·         Negatives (telegraphic) struggles to negate/ struggle with auxiliary verbs

·         Semantic ability outstrips phonological ability

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·         Virtuous errors

·         Determiners (struggle inaccurate) – here/there

·         Wug test –  Jean Berko Gleason (shows we have a LAD)

·         TENSE – suffixes

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·         Chomsky – LAD theory (Chomsky argued that children will never acquire the tools needed for processing an infinite number of sentences if the language acquisition mechanism was dependent on language input alone.)

·         Morphology – morphemes (suffixes and prefixes)

·         Demonstrate inconsistent or incorrect word order when speaking

·         Use a limited number of grammatical markers (e.g. –ing, a, the, possessive ‘s, be verbs)

·         Have difficulty understanding and using past, present and future verb tenses

·         Show limited understanding and use of plural forms

·         Struggle with story retell tasks

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·         Adult influence - Find an example of language learnt from caregiver

·         Imitation/  Reinforcement

·         Skinner – Taught how to speak

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·         Adult influence on language

·         Deb Roy – Speech home project

·         Colloquial Language/ accent dialect

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·         The forbidden experiment

·         FOX P 2

·         Lenneberg – CAP (1967) Not be able to communicate

·         This suggest that skinner and Chomsky are both right

·         Born with a LAD but no communication it does not matter

·         Speak to the child in many different contexts as possible

·         Learns more before being at school than being at school all day (Jean Berko-Gleason)

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·         Find examples about caregiver’s language in transcript

·         Convergence

·         Positively reinforcement  (repeat back )

·         Scaffolding/Repeating/False starts (Spontaneous speech)/ Reformulations

·         The caregiver uses an abundance of interrogative syntax – sets the agenda

·         The caregiver shows some examples of power  (politeness features)

·         Inclusive pronouns

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·         Focus on transcript – Lexis and Grammar

·         Relate to CLA

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·         Gender

Conclusion

·         Summarize findings – telegraphic /post telegraphic

o   Relationship/Age/Formality/Context

·         Although the study of CLA is relatively new, recent research and the identification of FOX-P-2 clearly shows Chomsky’s LAD is likely to exist, however, it needs to be stimulated for children to fully develop language.