2. Behaviorist View Skinner basics: Learn language by imitation
& reinforcement BaBa, Dada What might be a problem with
behaviorist view?
3. Problems with Behaviorist View? 1. Natural variation in
learning language Children make up own sentences Go there means: I
want to get back into the stroller. Learn words 2. Not always
reinforcement for new words Gain Infinite Generativity Produce
endless number of meaningful sentences using finite set of words
and rules
4. Noam Chomsky Chomsky's LAD hypothesis LAD Language
Acquisition Device Humans prewired to learn language at certain
time Able to detect various features & rules of language No
physical structure Behaviorists opposed Reinforced for saying
Mama
5. Interactionist View of Language Development Biology &
environmental experiences Contribute to language development Which
are? Children acquire native language without explicit teaching
Worldwide children acquire language same time. Research
Professionals spoke more to children than welfare recipients
Professionals children Vocabularies twice as large Nature of
Language and How it Develops in Infancy
6. Interactionist View Children learn language in specific
contexts Father & baby book father points to bird son repeats
word
7. 3 mo. old twin boys
8. Beginnings of Oral Communication Babies communicate by
sounds & gestures Sequence of 1st year communication 1. Crying
2. Cooing 3. Babbling 4. Gestures
9. Beginnings of Oral Communication Babbling Begins about 2
mo.'s. Strings of consonant-vowel combinations, such as ba, ba, ba,
ba Universal 6 mo.'s Babble sounds of language exposed Do not
respond to sounds in other languages not commonly exposed to.
10. Beginnings of Oral Communication First Words Receptive
vocabulary 5 mo.'s may recognize their name 13 mo.s understand 50
words
11. Beginnings of Oral Communication Holophrases One word for
entire thought Cool Spoken vocabulary 9 mo.'s 1 year, holophrases
Important objects & persons Dada Ball Doggie 11
12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6hxpzGHObc
13. Beginnings of Oral Communication Spoken vocabulary spurt 18
mo. old 50 100 words 2 yr. old 300 words
14. Beginnings of Oral Communication Telegraphic speech
Economical use of words Read book Correct order of words Opposed to
book read
15. Beginnings of Oral Communication Overextension Dada may
mean all men Underextension Use a word too narrowly Boy may mean
only boys his age 15