Berko and brown phonetics
Children can understand the difference in phonemes and can correct and adult but can’t pronounce them themselves yet
Cruttenden and intonation
Football experiment, adults understood internation of announcement and could predict good or bad scores, children and teenagers struggled, meaning it takes a while to understand intonation
Skinner language theory
Children learn through imitating their parents, positive reinforcement through praise
Hallidays 7 ways children use language
Instrumental(telling what they want)
Regulatory (requests or orders)
Interactional
Personal ( feelings)
Heuristic (environment questions)
Imaginative
Representational (telling information)