GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LEARNING THEORIES
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Question
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Language is developed to conform with society’s development
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Language is developed to conform with society’s mistakes
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Language is developed to conform with society’s changes
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Language is developed to conform with society’s expectations
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Detailed explanation-1: -Random fluctuation theory – Charles Hockett 1958: Suggesting that language change occurs due to the unstable nature of language itself. The theory suggests that changes that occur within the language do so to the constant changing context of the language itself and its users.
Detailed explanation-2: -Random fluctuation-language is inherently unstable and change is unpredictable. Random events and errors lead to language change as a consequence of ever-changing contextual factors. Wave model-explains how changes diffuse through geographical and social space, likely ripples on a pond.
Detailed explanation-3: -In A Course in Modern Linguistics, Hockett doesn’t refer to these properties as “design features of language” but calls them “the key properties of language”. He enumerates seven of them: duality, productivity, arbitrariness, interchangeability, specialisation, displacement and cultural transmission (1958: 574).
Detailed explanation-4: -Reflexiveness Humans can use language to talk about language. Also a very defining feature of human language, reflexiveness is a trait not shared by animal communication.