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LANGUAGE

LEARNING
IN EARLY CHILDHOOD PIN E D A JAI
M E S B E R T H A V A N E S A 4 °I V
CAPACIDAD DE
RAZONAMIENTO
FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Eg.'Mommy juice'
These sentences are sometimes
It is an impressive and fascinating aspects called 'telegraphic' because they
of human development. leave out such things as anides,

prepositions, and auxiliary verbs.
Learning a language is an amazing feat-

one that has attracted the attention of

linguists and psycholo gists for


generations.
WE RECOGNIZE THEM AS SENTENCES
Even though function words and grammatical
morphemes are missing

the word order reflects the word order of the


language they are hearing and the combined
words have a meaningful relationship that makes
them more than just a list of words

THE BEHAVIOURIST PERSPECTIVE


was influential in the 1940s and 1950s,


Imitation: word-for-word repetition of all or part
especially in the United States.
ofsomeone else's utterance.

M O T H E R Shall we play with the dolls?


This encouraged by their envi ronment, children
LUCY Play with dolls
would continue to imitate and practise these

sounds and patterns until they formed 'habits' of Practice: repetitive manipulation of form.
correct language use. C IN DY He eat carrots. The other one eat carrots.

They both eat carrots.

LNTERACTIONIST/DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES
They argue that the innatists place too
much emphasis on the 'final state' (the
Developmental and cognitive psychologists
competence of adult native speakers) and
have focused on the interplay between the not enough on the developmental aspects
innate learning ability of children and the oflanguage acquisition
environment in which they develop.

They hypothesize that what children need to


know is essentially available in the language
they are exposed to as they hear it used in
thousands of hours of interactions with the
people and objects around them.

The child does not have to be


THE INNATIST PERSPECTIVE
taught.

Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential


Most children learn to walk at

about the same age, and walking is


essentially the same in all normal language is acquired and how it is stored in the
human beings. mind sparked a revolution in many aspects of

linguistics and psychology, includ ing the study of
Far Chomsky, language acquisition language acquisition
is very similar

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