English Language (A-Level) | CLA Quiz Questions and Answers
Behaviourism (Skinner, 1957) - Correct Answer- Children learn through imitation
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- Conditioned into using language right
Bruner - Correct AnswerTheorist focused on child's interaction with caregivers. Includes LASS, scaffolding, and discovery learning and constructivism, i.e. rituals (bath, bed, meal).
Bellugi (1967) - Correct AnswerTheory relating to questions:
- Rising intonation
- Inversion of auxiliary verbs to signify question
- Formulaic 'wh-' questions
- Tag questions
Nativist (Chomsky, 1965) - Correct AnswerHumans have inbuilt capacity to acquire language. Child's brain contains special language-learning mechanisms at birth. Came up with 'Wug' test.
Piaget - Correct AnswerSwiss psychologist who came up with theory relating to child's stages of cognitive development, emphasising that they're active learners, i.e. asking questions.
Vygotsky - Correct AnswerTheorist focused on the social world of people when explaining cognitive & social development. Props are used as pivots at first, then imagination as child grows older.
Berko and Brown (1960) - Correct AnswerTheorists who studied that child calls fish 'fis' and child tells adult this is wrong when replicated - child isn't aware of contrast
LASS (Language Acquisition Support System) - Correct AnswerThis refers to the child's interaction with adults around them and how this interaction supports language development.
Scaffolding - Correct AnswerAdults question and encourage kids to develop speech.
One-word, Two-word, Telegraphic, Post-telegraphic - Correct AnswerThe four stages of language acquisition.
Labelling, Packaging, Network building - Correct AnswerAitchison's stages of children's linguistic development
Syntactical advances - Correct Answer- Ordering words into phrases & clauses
- Making different utterance types (simple, compound, complex)
Instrumental, regulatory, interactional, personal, representational, imaginative, heuristic - Correct AnswerHalliday's functions of speech
Deletion - Correct AnswerRemoving final consonant in words
Substitution - Correct AnswerSubstituting one letter for another
Addition - Correct AnswerAdding extra vowel sound to word ending, creating CVCV pattern
Assimilation - Correct AnswerChanging a consonant or vowel for another.
Reduplication - Correct AnswerRepeating a whole syllable, e.g. 'dada' and 'mama'
Overgeneralisation - Correct AnswerExtending word meanings or grammatical rules beyond normal use, i.e. 'runned' instead of 'ran'
Consonant cluster reduction - Correct AnswerConsonant clusters can be difficult to articulate, so children reduce them to smaller units, e.g. 'pider' ('spider')
Unstressed syllable deletion - Correct AnswerOmitting opening syllable in polysyllabic words
Vegetative, 0-4 months - Correct AnswerSounds of discomfort or reflexive actions, and age at which this usually happens
Cooing, 4-7 months - Correct AnswerComfort sounds and vocal play using open mouthed vowel sounds, and age at which this usually happens
Babbling, 6-12 months - Correct AnswerRepeated patterns of consonant & vowel sounds, i.e. 'baba', and age at which this usually happens
Protowords, 9-12 months - Correct AnswerWord-like vocalisations: not making actual words, but used consistently for same meaning; sometimes called 'scribble talk', and age at which this usually happens
Holophrastic/One-word, 12-18 months - Correct AnswerSingle-word utterances, and age at which this usually happens
Two-word, 18-24 months - Correct AnswerTwo-word utterances, and age at which this usually happens
Telegraphic, 24-36 months - Correct AnswerThree or more word combinations, and age at which this usually happens
Post-telegraphic, 36+ months - Correct AnswerMore grammatically complex combinations, and age at which this usually happens
Plosive - Correct AnswerConsonant produced by forcing vocal chord closure to begin another word or sound (P, B)
Fricative - Correct AnswerConsonant sound formed by constricting air flow through vocal tract (f, v, th, z, s, sh, sion)
Affricative - Correct AnswerStop consonant that's released slowly into period of fricative noise (i.e. /ch/ in church)
Approximants - Correct AnswerSimilar to vowels: air flow goes through the mouth, e.g. w, r and j
Nasals - Correct AnswerProduced by air moving through the nose (m, n)
Lateral - Correct AnswerCreated by placing tongue on ridge of teeth, then air moving down side of mouth (l)
24 months - Correct AnswerAge in which p, b, m, d, n, w, t sounds are typically produced
30 months - Correct AnswerAge in which k, g, h sounds are typically produced
36 months - Correct AnswerAge in which f, s, j, l sounds are typically produced
42 months - Correct AnswerAge in which tഽ, dζ, v, z, ഽ, r sounds are typically produced
48+ months - Correct AnswerAge in which θ, ð, ζ sounds are typically produced
Sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational, formal operational - Correct AnswerPiaget's stages of language development [Show Less]