First language aquisition

1. Universal Grammar (UG)is the deep structure of language at its deepest level and common to all languages.

• Yes

• No

2. Reinforcement is an instinctive mental capacity which enables an infant to acquire and produce a language.

• yes

• no

3. Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a loose grammar governing two word utterances by children.

• yes

• no

4. Tabula rasa is a clean slate of a young mind not yet affected by experience about the world / language

• yes

• no

5. Social Interaction is consequence applied that will strengthen an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent stimulus.

• yes

• no

Child: I taked a cookie.

Parent: Oh, you mean you took a cookie.

Child: Yes, that’s right, I taked it.

• a. Behavioristic Approach

• b. Nativist Approach

• c. Functional Approach

• d. Competence and Performance

No hot, mommy go, no hungry, all gone

• a. Behavioristic Approach

• b. Nativist Approach

• c. Functional Approach

• d. Comprehension and Production

3. Children are shaped by their environment & slowly conditioned through various schedules of reinforcement.

• a. Behavioristic Approach

• b. Nativist Approach

• c. Functional Approach

• d. Nature or nurture

What do children know and learn about talking with others? About connected pieces of discourse? The interaction between hearer and speaker? Conversational cues?

• a. Behavioristic Approach

• b. Nativist Approach

• c. Functional Approach

• d. Competence and Performance

Some common grammatical rules of UG; Word order, Agreement (e.g., of subject and verb), Negation, Question formation

• a. Behavioristic Approach

• b. Nativist Approach

• c. Functional Approach

• d. Nature or nurture