文档介绍：A behaviorist view of language acquisition
Theories of child language acquisition
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A behaviorist view of language acquisition
Traditional behaviorists view language as behavior and believe that language learning is simply a matter of imitation and habit formation****惯的养成).
Imitation →Recognition →Reinforcement
(gradually, habit-forming)
Imitation and practice are preliminary, discrimination and generalization are crucial to language development in this theory.
Imitation(模仿): word for word repetition of all or part of an utterance .
. Mother: Would you like some bread and peanut butter?
Katie: Some bread and peanut butter.
Practice: repetitive manipulation of one structure / pattern .
. I can handle it, Hannah can handle it. WE can handle it.
A behaviorist view of language acquisition
Peter(25months)
(Peter,Patsy,and Loris are playing with pencil and paper)
Peter:(indicating he wants Patsy to draw) too!
Patsy:You want me to make a car?OK.
(Patsy draws a tiny car like Lois')
Patsy:Oh,you want Lois to have some paper?
Peter:Lois have some paper?
(later)
patsy:Let's s