GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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You can see them-they’re real things
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They are easy to say
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They hear them lots
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Children are clever
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Detailed explanation-1: -Typically, young children acquire an arsenal of nouns before saying a collective amount of verbs-e.g. action words or adjectives-describing words. This happens because: 1. Nouns are easier for young children to see, manipulate, and understand.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nouns tend to appear before verbs (Gentner, 1982) and to dominate English-speaking children’s early lexicons (e.g., Fenson et al., 1994; Goldin-Meadow, Seligman, & Gelman, 1976).
Detailed explanation-3: -Children acquire language through interaction-not only with their parents and other adults, but also with other children. All normal children who grow up in normal households, surrounded by conversation, will acquire the language that is being used around them.