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Developmental Milestones Flashcards

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Phonology

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speech sounds

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Morphology

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smallest unit of words (plural s, root word)

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Syntax

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  • sentence structure
  • word order
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Semantics

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  • meaning of words
  • focuses on the vocabulary we use
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Pragmatics

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  • social skills
  • how we use language
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Perlocutionary Stage

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birth-8-10 months. vegetative sounds, sound play. Communication is not intentional. 3 main elements of this stage are turn taking, eye contact, and attention

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Illocutionary Stage

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8-10 months through 12 months. intent to communicate through gestures and nonlinguistic vocalizations. regulates attention with adult. Words not considered true. Babbling such as “mamamama, mataba”

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Locutionary Stage

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12 months or when child says his/her first word. meaning must be correct behind the word. unstable vocab still in this stage.

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0-1 months

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  • Phonology: Vocalizing (crying, sneezing, burping, coughing.)
  • Pragmatics: eye contact (birth)
  • Motor: turns/lifts head
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2-3 months

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  • Phonology: Laughing and coo-goo sounds. (back sounds + vowel) example: “ga”.
  • Pragmatics: smile, joint attention, turn taking
  • Motor: turns/lifts head
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4-6 months

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  • Phonology: exploration/expansion / vocal play (raspberries, squeals, yelling)
  • Pragmatics: joint attention, turn taking (perlocutionary)
  • Motor: rolls over, sits up (6m)
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6-9 months

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  • Phonology: Reduplicated Babbling. (Same consonant over and over again). Example would be “mamamama”
  • Semantics: Begins to respond to name (6m)
  • Pragmatics: deictic gestures. Ex: show, give, point. Function to gain or maintain attention with partner. Request/draws attention to a referent, Producing jargon with carried intonation -> usually accompanied by gestures
  • Motor: sits up (6m), crawling (9m)
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10-12 months

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  • Phonology: Variegated babbling. This is how a child expands his/her vowel + consonant inventory. Example would be “mataba”
  • Semantics: 50 words in receptive vocab
  • Pragmatics: production of jargon words with varied intonation. Usually accompanied by gestures, requesting through various gestures. Ex: putting up arms to be picked up (10m)
  • Motor: pull to stand and crawl
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12-18 months

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  • Phonology: CV, CVCV shape. More variability. Example: mama, kiki/cookie.
  • Semantics: first word (10-13). lexicon- 10-15 words (unstable vocabulary (15m), communicates primarily through gestures OR words(15m)
  • Pragmatics: iconic gestures/representational gestures/baby signs. Ex: might put up hands to represent “bear”(12m), communicate with gestures or words, individually(12-16m), point and say a word (15-16m)
  • Motor: Walks (12m)
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18-24 months

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  • Phonology: CVC and 2 syllable words emerge. Example: “baseball”
  • Syntax: two word utterances, What+this/that
  • Semantics: 50 word vocab, 2 word combinations. Word learning becomes faster, the words produced should be mostly recognizable, some verbs.
  • Pragmatics: gestures are integrated with speech
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24-28 months

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  • Phonology: now able to say longer words. CVCVc, CVC. Final deletion is still typical.
  • Syntax: sentence types and complexity begin to vary, 3-word utterances
  • Semantics: verb spurt (starts using verbs + nouns)
  • Pragmatics: emblem gestures (Ex: thumbs up, give me five)…likely routine- based
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29-35 months

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  • Syntax: Multi-word utterances
  • Semantics: Child starts using other word classes (ex: adjectives)
  • Pragmatics: Beat gestures (talking with hands “rhythmic”)
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36 months / 3 years

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  • Phonology: Final consonant deletion resolves and is no longer typical. Might need intervention if child is still doing it.
  • Syntax: sentence types and complexity begin to vary, MLU continues to grow and expands rapidly
  • Semantics: 1,000 words in expressive vocab
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Form

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phonology, morphology, syntax

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Content

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Use

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pragmatics

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Deictic gestures

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Gestures that refer to something in the environment (showing, giving, pointing, and ritual request (prelinguistic)

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Representational gestures

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Iconic gestures that convey some aspect of the referent’s meaning (sticking tongue out for frog)

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Beat gestures

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manual movements that are produced with the rhythm of speech but do not convey semantic or deictic reference (talking with hands)

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Emblem gestures

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Conventional symbols, they are language-like in that they are abstract symbols (thumbs up, give me high five)

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