13 - First Language Acquisition

Question 1

What is the acquisition schedule?

Answer 1

First months - cooing
6-11m - babbling
12-18m - 1 word stage
18-24m - 2 word stage
2-2.5y - telegraphic speech
2.5ys+ - developing morphology
18-40m - developing syntax
by 5y - most basic features present

Question 2

What motor skills does a child have from 4-12 months?

Answer 2

4 - squeeling and cooing, turns head to human speech
5 - recognises different sounds (ba vs ga), produces more consonant sounds
6 - longer vowels, babbling, more syllables
8 - puts objects in mouth whilst making noises
10 - produce sound play, bubbles, syllable combinations (da da ma ma)
12 - repeated syllables with different consonants (ba da ma)

Question 3

What are the stages of developing morphology?

Answer 3

1: -ing
2: in
3: on
4: plural -s
5: irregular past tense
6: possessive -s
7: verb ‘to be’
8: articles (a, the)
9: past tense -ed
10: present tense -s

Question 4

What is overgeneralisation?

Answer 4

Using an inflectional morpheme when it’s not normally used e.g. foots, mans, he goed

Question 5

What are the different stages of developing syntax: forming questions?

Answer 5

1 (18-26m) - 1/2 words, rising intonation, ‘where’
2 (22-30m) - 2/3 words, rising intonation, ‘what, why’
3 (24-40m) - 3/4 words, inversion, ‘who, how’

Question 6

What are the different stages of developing syntax: forming negatives?

Answer 6

1 (18-26m) - ‘no’, ‘not’
2 (22-30m) - ‘no’/’not’ to verb, ‘don’t’/’can’t’
3 (24-40m) - ‘didn’t’/’won’t’ to verb