13 First lanugage acquisition (Yule) PDF

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Warning: TT: undefined function: 32 Warning: TT: undefined function: 32Summarized by Zahra Al-HashimyBook: The Study of LanguageAuthor: George YuleEdition: 5 thCHAPTER 13   *    ￮First language acquisition Acquisition  Input input: the language that an acquirer/learner is exposed to, in contr...

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Summarized by Zahra Al-Hashimy Book: The Study of Language Author: George Yule Edition: 5th

CHAPTER 13   *    ￮ First language acquisition

 Acquisition  Input input: the language that an acquirer/learner is exposed to, in contrast to output  Caregiver speech  The acquisition schedule  Cooing cooing: the earliest use of speech-like sounds by an infant in the first few months  Babbling babbling: the use of syllable sequences (ba-ba) and combinations (ma-ga) by young children in their first year  The one-word stage one-word stage: the period in L1 acquisition when children can produce single terms for objects holophrastic (utterance): a single form functioning as a phrase or sentence in the early speech of young children  The two-word stage two-word stage: a period beginning at around 18–20 months when children produce two terms together as an utterance (baby chair)  Telegraphic speech telegraphic speech: strings of words (lexical morphemes without inflectional morphemes) in phrases (daddy go byebye) produced by two-year-old children  The acquisition process  Learning through imitation?  Learning through correction?  Developing morphology overgeneralization: in L1 acquisition, using an inflectional morpheme on more words than is usual in the language (e.g. two foots)  Developing syntax  Forming questions  Forming negatives  Developing semantics overextension: in L1 acquisition, using a word to refer to more objects than is usual in the language (ball used to refer to the moon)  Later developments...