GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES
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Question
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Krashen
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Aitchison
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Crystal
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Piaget
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jean Aitcheson explains that changes in language originate from existing elements in language which then get exaggerated. This language change is sometimes spread as people pick up the change subconsciously when communicating with others.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jean Aitchison is Professor of Language and Communication and the University of Oxford. She is the author of a number of books on language, including The Articulate Mammal (4th edition 1998) and Words in the Mind (3rd edition 2003).
Detailed explanation-3: -In Aitchison (1987), she identifies three stages that occur during a child’s acquisition of vocabulary: labelling, packaging and network building.
Detailed explanation-4: -What did Jean Aitchison identify in 1987? Three stages that occurred during a child’s acquisition of vocabulary: labelling, packaging and network building. Understanding is that ‘mummy’ refers to the child’s mother. In other words associating a name with something.