Child And Language Acquisition

Question 1

Communicative competence

Answer 1

• the ability to form accurate and understandable utterences using the grammer system
• to understand socail context for using them

Question 2

Pre-verbal Stage

Answer 2

• (0-12 months)
• experimenting with noises/sounds but wihtout producing recognisable words
• can be broken down into the vegetative stage, cooing and babbling

Question 3

Vegetative Stage

Answer 3

• (0-7 months)
• Vegetative Stage is when the baby makes discomfort sounds such as crying, as a way of expressing thoughts and feelings

Question 4

Crying

Answer 4

• The first noise a baby makes
• excersises the vocal cords in order to:
• learn to make different sounds
• learn that noise with gain attention
• signal a physical need or want such as hunger or tiredness
• studies suggest parents recognise when the babies crying changes its intensity

Question 5

Non-vocal Interactions

Answer 5

• before communication can be achieved through speech, babies are able to communicate through gestures, such as pointing

Question 6

Cooing

Answer 6

• (4-6 months)
• not yet forming recognisable vowles and consonants
• experiments with noises made when the tongue and back of mouth come into contact
• the baby begins to develop control over the vocal muscles

Question 7

laughing

Answer 7

• starts around 4 months

Question 8

Babbling Stage

Answer 8

• (6-12 months)
• the baby produces phonemes, often in the fomr of consonants and vowels
• (ma, ga, ba, baba, dada, gaga)
• they are largely thoses that appear in the childs native language