AQA English A2: Child Language Acquisition

By Andrew Hubbert

"This revision book has everything that I wanted when I was revising my Biology for AS-Level. It has clear concise revision notes and notes pages for you to add your own notes as you go along"
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Andrew Hubbert
• Release date: Dec 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311211439

Andrew Hubbert

I'm a current physiotherapy student at the University of Leicester and I'm loving every second of it! I'm relatively new to writing having only just published my first book but I have more in the pipeline and hopefully will appeal to a wide range of people. I have a very diverse writing style that hopefully will produce a wide catalog of titles that will appeal to the masses (that's the goal anyway). So my books... I've just published Cancer: We Beat You which is a very thought provoking short ebook (and print!) about me batting through school whilst my mum had Cancer. The true effect of this I only realised years later and I decided to do the hard thing and put it into words how I felt at the time. It's not morbid though and hopefully shows you that Cancer isn't necessarily something to be scared of as my mum came through it all and is bossing me around just like before! I'm currently writing a teenage spy novel (well the 'teen' is actually 20) and I want to make this into a series. More on this soon! And if neither of those are to your taste later in 2015 I'm looking to publish some self-help at home guides to common conditions and how best to treat these employing my physiotherapy knowledge. This will of course be after I've qualified so I actually know what I'm talking about!

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AQA ENGB3 English Language

Child Language Acquisition Revision Notes

General vocabulary

Lexis (word choices)

Grammar (morphology = word construction; syntax = word order)

Phonology (sound)

Semantics (meaning)

Pragmatics (where meaning needs to be inferred, e.g. It’s over there)

Speaking acquisition

Terminology

Child – Direct Speech (CDS) –also called ‘motherese’ or care-taker speech speech that adults use to talk to children – often high pitched and repetitive.

Cognitive– need support to acquire knowledge – cognitive development.

Competence –children may have competence which they have no occasion to demonstrate.

Complex speech patterns and utterances

Compound sentences –2 or more main (equal) clauses, e.g. ‘…and she…’

Complex sentence– 2 or more clauses, one reliant on the other, the main clause.

Conditional sentence–e.g. ‘If…then…’ (7 – 9 years)

Empiricist perspective –idea that children are nurtured or taught language.

Feral child –someone deprived of human interaction and language and social skills – unable to speak – grunt.

‘Fast mapping’ –process of linking