0-12 Months

Question 1

Pre-birth

Answer 1

Accustomed to sounds of mother - rhythm and intonation

Question 2

1 day

Answer 2

Can distinguish mother’s voice

Question 3

4 days

Answer 3

Can distinguish language

Jacques Mehler - babies sucked dummies more enthusiastically

Question 4

2 weeks

Answer 4

Can distinguish human and non - human

Pausing establishes basic turn-taking

Question 5

0-2 months

Answer 5

Sounds like to physical conditions - burp, cough

Different cries for different needs - universally recognisable

Question 6

6-8 weeks

Answer 6

Child can coo
Soft velar consonants /k/ /g/ with vowel
/gae/
Elicits greater response from parents

Question 7

8-20 weeks

Answer 7

Baby responds to tone of voice
Greater range of phonemes - younger vertical and horizontal
Lip strength allows bilabials - /m/ /b/ /p/
Peekaboo reinforces turn taking
Child can sit up

Question 8

6-12 months

Answer 8

Babbling continues after lexis
Consonant vowel combinations /dae/
Rise fall intonation ‘all gone’
Comprehension of ‘hot’ ‘no’ before production

Question 9

Reduplicating monosyllables

Answer 9

Baba Mama

Don’t carry meaning but have become universal parent names

Question 10

Phonemic expansion

Answer 10

Increasing the number of available sounds

Question 11

Contraction

Answer 11

Discarding phonemes not needed for native language