5 Stages Of CLA Flashcards
1
Q
What is the Pre verbal stage in Child Language Acquisition?
A
0-12 months: Cooing - use of vocal cords
babbling bababa
2
Q
What characterizes the Holophrastic stage?
A
12-18 months: Use of single words to represent a sentence.
Example: ‘milk’ → ‘I want milk’.
3
Q
What occurs during the Two word stage?
A
18-24 months: Combination of two words (e.g., ‘more juice’, ‘want car’).
Syntax starts to develop as word order becomes more structured.
4
Q
What is the Telegraphic stage?
A
24-36 months: Use of 3 or more words together, omitting less critical words.
Example: ‘want cookie’ → ‘I want cookie’.
5
Q
What happens in the Post-telegraphic stage?
A
36+ months: Learning pronouns, still struggle prepositions and auxiliary verbs.
