Language acquisition: Key theorists
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- Language acquisition: key theorists
- Noam Chomsky
- learning takes place through an innate brain mechanism - LAD (Language Acquisition Device)
- Jean Berko + Roger Brown
- child who referred to plastic fish as "fis" couldn't link an adults use of "fis" to the same object
- Katherine Nelson
- 4 categories for first words:
- naming (most common)
- actions/events
- describing / modifying things
- personal / social words
- 4 categories for first words:
- B. F. Skinner
- children imitate and copy adults and are conditioned to use the right language via positive and negative reinforcement
- Jean Aitchison
- connected children's lexical and semantic development through 3 stages (labeling, packaging + network-building)
- Jean Piaget
- kids are active learners who use the environment + social interactions to shape their language
- kids cannot be taught before they are ready
- Ursula Bellugi
- 3 stages of negative formation in children
- Lev Vygotsky
- observed children's play and linked it to both cognitive + social development
- Jerome Bruner
- thinks there must be a Language Acquisition Support System (LASS) which refers to the child's interaction with adults around them
- ritualised activities like meal times and bedtimes are explicit and predictable so children can learn
- Noam Chomsky
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