What are the developmental sequences that a child goes through as he tries to speak his language?

1. Crying when he’s hungry or annoyed.

2. Cooing and gurgling.

3. a few months later they start babbling

4. At the end of 1st year, they start understanding the words spoken to them

5. By the age of 2 they can produce at least 50 words.

What are the stages that children go through while they are learning to form "Questions"

1. One or two words only. Ex: Mummy cookie?

2. Use of intonation Ex: I have some?

3. They notice the different word order of questions and they start learning them. Ex: Can I go?

4. They change the Subject-Auxiliary order with more Auxiliaries. They also start using "Do". Ex: Do dogs
like ice cream?

5. They can use Yes/No questions and WH Questions correctly, but they can’t use negative questions.

6. They can form all question types correctly.

What are the stages that children go through while they are learning the functions of "Negation"

1. Using the word "NO"

2. No comes before the verb

3. Using Don't in a correct English pattern, but without full mastery of tenses and persons.

4. Correct use of negation.

What do you know about the critical period hypothesis?

Chomsky said that there is a specific time in life for humans to acquire some kind of knowledge, beyond
those critical periods it is either difficult or impossible to acquire these abilities.
Why doesn't behaviorism offer a satisfactory explanation of first language acquisition?

Because children can’t learn to distinguish between grammatical and ungrammatical just from imitating,
because they are exposed to false starts, incomplete sentences and slips of the tongue.

Explain the innatist perspective?

The innatist perspective emphasizes the fact that all children successfully acquire their native language.
children achieve different levels of vocabularies, creativity, social grace, and so on. Noam Chomsky is
one of the most influential figures in linguistics, he said that all human languages are fundamentally
innate.

Discuss the behaviourist perspective?

it was very influential in the 1940s & 1950s especially in the U.S.A. The best proponent of this theory is
B.F.Skinner. this theory is based on imitating, positive reinforcement, practice and habits.

Discuss the interactionist/developmental perspectives learning from inside and out?

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.