Child language Acquisition - Introduction And Phonological Acquisition (1)

Question 1

What are the 4 stages of lexical and grammatical stages of development?

Answer 1

• holographic
• two word
• telegraphic
• post telegraphic

Question 2

What are the 6 different types of sounds produced?

Answer 2

• plosives
• fricatives
• affricates
• approximants
• nasals
• laterals

Question 3

What are fricatives?

Answer 3

Created when airflow is partially blocked and air moves through mouth in steady stream e.g. thy / leisure)

Question 4

What are plosives?

Answer 4

Created when airflow is blocked for a brief time e.g. b,d,g

Question 5

How are affricates created?

Answer 5

By putting plosives and fricatives together e.g. judge

Question 6

What are approximants?

Answer 6

Sounds similar to vowels e.g. w,r,j

Question 7

What are nasals

Answer 7

Nasals are produced by air moving through the nose e.g. m,n

Question 8

What are laterals?

Answer 8

Created by placing tongue on ridge of teeth e.g. L

Question 9

What are the 7 early phonological errors?

Answer 9

• deletion
• substitution
• addition
• assimilation
• reduplucation
• reduction of consonant clusters
• deletion of unstressed syllables

Question 10

What is the phonological error assimilation?

Answer 10

Changing one consonant sound for another e.g. gog for dog

Question 11

Research point - what was Jean Berko and Roger Browns study about Phonology?

Answer 11

Child refered to inflatable fish as ‘fis’ substituting the ‘s’ sound for the ‘sh’, the child could not link the adults use of ‘fis’ to their own