Child Language Development (Speech)

Question 1

What are the stages in the process of spoken language acquisition?

Answer 1

Pre-birth
Pre-verbal
Holophrastic
Two word
Telegraphic
Post telegraphic

Question 2

What is the pre-brith stage?

Answer 2

Even before baby is born it will recognise it’s mother’s voice, six months before baby is born ear bones have formed and they can hear, differentiate between native language and other languages, this is because of th difference in rhythms and intontions of every language baby is atuned to.

Question 3

What are the substages in the pre-verbal stage?

Answer 3

Crying (from birth)
Cooing and laughing (from 2 months)
Babbling (from 6 months)

Question 4

What are the features of crying in the pre-verbal stage?

Answer 4

First noise a bay will make is crying, usually for phsyical reasons such as: hunger, wind or tiredness. Baby beginning to exercise vocal cords and understand making a noise will gain attention, first stage in understanding nature of discourse and interction with others.

Question 5

What are the features of cooing and laughing in the pre-verbal stage?

Answer 5

Baby experiments with noises that can be made when the tongue and the back of the mouth come into contact, resembles vowel and consonant sounds.

Question 6

What is the features of babbling in the pre-verbal stage?

Answer 6

Reduplicated babbling: simpler, appears first, invlovs child repeatedly making same sounds
Variegated babbling: emerges slightly later, ivolves variation in consonant and vowel sounds being produced, doesn’t resemble recognisable words

Question 7

What is the holophrastic stage?

Answer 7

Happens at around 12 to 18 months, single words, usually nouns, can have many different meanings and moods eg. dog could mean “Where is the dog?” or “There is the dog.”

Question 8

What is the two word stage?

Answer 8

Happens at around 18 to 24 months, child is now using two words, verbs start to emerge more and more nouns, child starts to use syntax correctly eg.
Subject verb: Milo woof
Verb object: bark dog

Question 9

What is the telegraphic stage?

Answer 9

Happens around 24 months until 5 years, just enough words to communicate successfully, massiv increase in vocabulary, more word classes acquird such as pronouns, prepositions and various determiners
When a child comes to the end of this stage start to become more complex with their language, adding negatives, inflections and coordinating conjunctions

Question 10

What is the pos telegraphic stage?

Answer 10

The child can use many advanced features of English such as contractions and irregular verbs