Early Language Milestones

Question 1

Reflexive

Answer 1

• 0-2 months

- crying, coughing, sneezing, sighs

Question 2

Cooing

Answer 2

• 1-4 months

- vowel like oooos

Question 3

Vocal Play

Answer 3

• 4-7 months
• manipulate pitch
• growls, raspberries, snorts
• longer strings of sounds

Question 4

Babbling

Answer 4

• should start by 10 months

Question 5

Canonical/Reduplicated

Answer 5

• same CV sound repeated

- lala

Question 6

Non-reduplicated/Variegated

Answer 6

• babbling that uses more than 2 CV syllables in a row

- lada

Question 7

Echolalia

Answer 7

• 8-12 months

- repeating something just heard but not in a meaningful way

Question 8

Jargon

Answer 8

• 9-12 months
• babbling with prosody of target language
• sounds like the baby is having a conversation but you don’t know what they are saying

Question 9

Perlocutionary Stage

Answer 9

• 0-10 months
• crying
• no intention to communicate
  natural response

Question 10

Illocutionary Stage

Answer 10

• 6-12 months
• has intentionality without speech and language
• uses gestures

Question 11

Locutionary Stage

Answer 11

• 12+ months

- intentionality with language

Question 12

Saffran’s Famous Study (1996)

Answer 12

-investigated if children could distinguish coherent words in a stream of nonsense speech like this:
tupirobidakugolabupadotibidaku
-after 2 minutes infants were able to distinguish between words and part words
-babies do this with non speech stimuli too
-pattern finding ability is good also for facial recall and learning language

Question 13

Joint Attention

Answer 13

• 6-9 months
• the ability to shift attention between an object and another person
• includes pointing and gaze following