Names: Erika, Angie, Enengy

Please complete each box with takeaways from each topic

Universal Grammar Behaviorism

● Children are born with an innate. “Language - reinforcement and punishment shape
acquisition device” behaviors to either increase or decrease in
● Environment determines which parameters a frequency
child sets for their language - operant conditioning
- classical conditioning

Vygotsky Piaget

● Children’s cognitive development - cognitive stages of development determine

results from interaction between what a child is capable of learning at different
innate skills and social experiences ages
● Zone of proximal development

Parallel Processing Theory of Mind

- being able to understand that people have

● multilayered networks of connections different things in mind and that knowledge is
● many thoughts/attentions/ speech not inherently shared
perception/ things are happening at the
same time

Joint Referencing Child Directed Speech

● presupposes that two or more individuals -

when adults speak to children they use
share a common focus on on entity simpler language
○ indicating - the changes they make to their speech help
○ use of deictic children learn language
○ name - changes to syntax, intonation, semantics