CLD 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Oneword, Joint Attention, Speech Segmentation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Early Childhood Studies
• Course: CLD 102
• Professor: Laura Schein

Document Summary

Variations in language development implications for research and theory. The history of variation in child language research. Transformational syntax offered new and coherent way of accounting for structural principles of adult linguistic competence that cut across inter- and intralinguistic diversity. Kinds of questions asked and methods used to study child language were direct outcomes of applying new theory to problems of acquisition. Child language research focused on questions of structure, with intent of documenting universal rules governing children"s early sentences. Focus on linguistic universals during this period carried with it certain assumptions about methods that could be used to investigate child language. Referential children had early lexicons that were dominated by words for objects: early preference for object labels was positively related to talk about objects and negatively related to talk about self in a follow-up speech. Expressive children fewer object labels but more pronouns and function words: acquired more personal-social expressions usually longer than a single word.