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| Question | Answer |
| Berko and Brown (1960s) | children believe they are speaking correctly and do not recognised mistakes mimicked by adults |
| Katherine Nelson (1973) | children's language fits into four groups: namings, actions, descriptors and social words |
| Eve Clark (year unknown) | children base overextension on physical qualities and features like taste, sound or shape |
| Jean Aitchison | language acquisition can fit into three stages: labelling, packaging and network building |
| Noam Chomsky | Language Acquisition Device: children are born with the pre-programmed ability to learn grammatical structures (nativist theory) |
| Eric Lenneburg | if language is not acquired before puberty, full fluency and mastery can never be achieved (nativist theory) |
| Skinner | behaviour/language that is reinforced by adults is more likely to reoccur (behaviourist theory) |
| Vygotsky (theory 1) | two levels of development, and a zone between called ZPD, this zone is the potential growth of the child's language |
| Vygotsky (theory 2) | Scaffolding Theory: children develop like building blocks. 'Scaffolding' represents support given by an MKO, which slowly lessens |
| Vygotsky (theory 3) | Social Interactionist Theory: children have to acquire language to function in society, and that language is like any other biologically based attachment behaviour |
| Jerome Bruner (1996) | three modes of representation: enactive (muscle memory 0 - 1), Iconic (visually based 1- 6) and Symbolic (language based 7+) |
| Lenneburg (theory 2) | Developing theory: language has to be acquired during the first 5 years of life (the critical period of development) |
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