Chapter 13 - First language acquisition

Question 1

Input

Answer 1

Language that a learner is exposed to

Question 2

Caregiver speech

Answer 2

Simplified speech style adopted by someone who spends a lot of time interacting with a young child.

Question 3

Cooing

Answer 3

Earliest forms of speech sounds. Vowel-like sounds and velar consonants k and g. First months.

Question 4

Babbling

Answer 4

6-8 months. Combinations of vowels and consonants ba-ba-ba, later combinations such as ba-da.

Question 5

The one-word stage

Answer 5

12-18 months, single terms for everyday objects. Also holophrastic words, that is one word for a phrase.

Question 6

The two word stage

Answer 6

18-20 months. Vocabulary beyond 50 words. Understands 5 times more than it can say. Baby chair can mean different things depending on the context.

Question 7

Telegraphic speech

Answer 7

Strings of words (lexical morphemes without inflectional morphemes) in phrases. 2 year olds.

Question 8

Overgeneralization

Answer 8

Applies rules for plural etc were it should not be. Foot – foots. Irregular forms are not learnt yet.

Question 9

Overextension

Answer 9

Overextending the meaning of words. All animals are dogs. All round things are ball. In terms of hyponymy the middle level is used. Animal-dog-poodle, dog is used.