Case studies

Question 1

describe cruttendon’s study and what it highlights

Answer 1

-carried our research on intonation using football results as aural stimulus
-intonation used in 1st teams score enabled adults to accuracy predict home win,away or draw
-children (7-11) youngest were largely unsuccessful and oldest were significantly less successful than adults

Question 2

nelson 1973

Answer 2

placed the early words of children into 4 categories: naming, action, social and modifying. she found that around 60% of a child’s first word are nouns

Question 3

bloom 2004

Answer 3

argued that this supposed noun bias merely reflects the relative frequency of nouns in language ( outnumbering verbs 5:1 in most dictionaries)