Child Language Acquisition~ Spoken

Syntactic development
1. One-word stage
2. Understanding
3. Two-word stage
4. Meaning of two-word utterances
  1. THEORY: BLOOM (1973)
5. Telegraphic stage
6. Rapid progress
7. Acquisition of inflections
  1. THEORY: CRUTTENDEN (1979)
  2. THEORY: BERKO (1958)
8. Over generalisation
9. Questions
10. Negotiation
Phonological acquisition
1. Substitution
2. Assimilation
3. Deletion
4. Consonant cluster reductions
5. THEORY: BERKO AND BROWN
6. THEORY: MICHAEL TOMASELLO AND THE USAGE-BASED THEORY OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Role of the caregiver
1. Higher, melodic pitch
2. More frequent and longer pauses
3. Slower and clearer speech
4. Repetition
5. Grammatically simpler sentences
6. More questions
7. The use of diminutives
8. More frequent use of plural pronouns
9. Expansion
10. Re-casts
11. Politeness features
12. Mitigated imperitives
13. MOTHERESE
  1. Characterised into 3 responses
Pragmatic and discourse development in children
1. Grice's Maxims
2. THEORY: Sinclair and Coulthard
Lexical/semantic acquisition
1. Overextension
2. Underextension
3. Mismatching
4. Relationships
THEORY: M.A.K HALLIDAY- 7 FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE
1. Instrumental
2. Regulatory
3. Interactional
4. Personal
5. Representational
6. Heuristic
7. Imaginative
Morphology
1. Bond and free morpheme

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	Created by Hannah Beck almost 8 years ago