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11 Cards in this Set
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Language Acquistion Device (LAD)
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The Human brain's inbuilt capacity to acquire language.
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Universal Grammer
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All world Languages share the same principles of grammer dispite surface differences in lexis and Phonology.
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Proto-Word
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An invented word that has a consistant meaning.
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Social Interactionists
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Those who believe that child language develops through social interaction with carers .
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Behaviourists
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Those who believe that language is acquired through imitation and reinforcement.
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Overextension
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A feature of a child's language where the word used to label something is 'stretched' to include things that aren't normally a part of the word's meaning.
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Underextension
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A feature of a child's language where the word used to label is 'reduced' to include only part of it's normal meaning.
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Deixis
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Lexical Terms that 'point' towards something and place words in context.
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Virtuous Error
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Syntactic errors made by young children in which the non-standard utterance reveals some understanding, though incomplete, of standard syntax.
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Language Acquistion Support System (LASS)
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This refers to the child's interaction with adult's around them and how this interaction supports Language Development.
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Scaffolding
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The Process of transferring a skill from an adult to child and then withdrawing support once the skill has been mastered.
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