Child Language Acquisition Theories

4. If a child calls an orange a ball, what type of overextension is this?
6. What stage of Piaget's cognitive development is a child likely to be in aged 2-7 years?
7. What did Crystal say children were more likely to use after 7 years of age?
11. What type of speech is likely to increase a child's language knowledge?
14. Which theorist explored children's grammatical development - looking at pronouns, questions and negatives?
15. A child is likely to be in the ________ stage if they say things like 'Shall I do it?'

1. If a child says 'Hiya!' what language function is this?
2. Which theorist proposes that children's speech develops through a series of 5 amorphous stages?
3. The period in which children's lexis significantly increases.
5. 'The ___________ communication development inventory' that explored the types of words children were likely to use.
8. Which theories categorised the types of concrete nouns children were likely to develop first?
9. Who identified the zone of proximal development?
10. A child's speech is __________ if it is focussed on themselves and unable to appreciate feelings or concepts outside of their own situation.
12. Which theories stated that children have to develop 'communicative competence'?
13. Provides an alternative to Halliday's 'Functions'