Early Language Acquisation Flashcards
What happens in the pre-birth stage?
The babies start to familiarise with the mothers voice in the womb and pick up the rhythm of language.
What happens when they’re 1 day old?
The baby begins to recognise voices. They start to turn to their mothers voice in the womb.
What was the study that Jaques Mehler did when babies were 4 days old?
He did a language cognition and development investigation.
What did Jaques Mehler find?
He found that when the babies heard French their dummy sucking increased as they were more interested in that language over English and Italian.
When can babies distinguish between human and non-human sounds?
2 weeks old.
At 2 weeks old what do babies start to recognise within speech?
Turn taking as there are pauses being given by the career.
What can parents start to do when the babies are 0-2 months old?
They can begin to recognise their distinctive cries e.g distress or hunger.
What else occurs at 0-2 months old?
Biological noises involve control of airflow.
Not classified as a language but parents recognise the cries of foreign babies.
At how old do babies begin to “coo”?
6-8 weeks
Why do children at 6-8 weeks begin to coo?
Because they have increased control over their vocal cords.
Why is 6-8 weeks softer than crying?
Because /k/ or /g/ (velar consonants) are combined with vowels to create /kü/ and /gæ/ sounds.
At 6-8 weeks why is dialogue interactive?
Because they get verbal responses from the carer, and can start to recognise things such as smiles being a positive thing.
When is the “cooing stage”?
8-20 weeks
What does the cooing stage mean?
That babies are responding to the meanings of tones of voice.
At 8-20 weeks a babies tongue can move horizontally and vertically, what does this allow?
This allows more phonemes
