Child Language - Grammatical Stages

Question 1

Holophrastic stage

Answer 1

12 months / mainly nouns, 1 word utterances

Question 2

Two word stage

Answer 2

18 months - 2 years / child can construct two words (subject and a verb or object and a verb)

Question 3

Telegraphic stage

Answer 3

2 years - 3 years / child can construct three or more words , mainly nouns and verbs

Can use auxiliary verbs, prepositions conjunctions

Question 4

Post telegraphic stage

Answer 4

3 years + / child begins to use : auxiliary verbs , prepositions , conjunctions , indefinite and definite articles , more accurate questions and negatives

Question 5

Behaviourist theory (skinner)

Answer 5

Children imitate adults

Question 6

Innateness theory (chomsky)

Answer 6

Child’s brain contains special language- learning mechanisms from birth ( built in capcity to learn)

Virtuous errors, child makes a logical mistake “shotted”

Question 7

Cognitive (piaget)

Answer 7

Language is linked with intellectual growth - a child has to understand a concept before language that expresses that concept can be aquired

Question 8

Interaction (bruner)

Answer 8

Interaction between children and care givers - child directed speech supports the acquisition of language

Question 9

Infelctions (roger brown)

Answer 9

An ending such as

• Ing
• s
• ed