Holophrastic Stage Flashcards
1
Q
What is the Holophrastic Stage ?
A
> Earliest recognisable language, one word can convey a complete idea or a large amount of meaning
2
Q
Katherine Nelson
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> 60% of first 50 words are nouns
Early vocabulary contains content words (verbs,nouns,adjectives)
and function words (determiners, prepositions and auxiliary verbs which are acquired later)
3
Q
Bloom
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> “Noun bias” reflects frequency
> Nouns outnumber verbs 5:1 in most dictionaries
4
Q
Jean Aitchson
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> “Naming insight” , “ Naming explosion”
> Develops around 18 months as children will realise every object, person, place has a word / label
> Followed by “naming explosion” , rapidly developing new vocabulary
