Linguistic Stages Of Development🎯

Question 1

Vegetative (pre-verbal) 0-4 months

Answer 1

Sounds of discomfort or reflexive actions

E.g. crying, coughing, burping and sucking

Question 2

Cooing (pre-verbal)4-7 months

Answer 2

Comfort sounds and vocal play using open-mouthed vowel sounds
E.g. grunts and sighs become vowels like coos; laughter starts; hard consonants and vowels are produced; pitch and loudness practised

Question 3

Babbling (pre-verbal) 6-12 months

Answer 3

Repeated patterns of consonant and vowel sounds; this involves sounds linked to own language.
Reduplication of sounds, e.g. ba-ba

Question 4

Proto-words (pre-verbal) 9-12 months

Answer 4

Word-like vocalisations, not matching actual words, but used consistently for the same meaning (sometimes called scribble talk)

Question 5

Holophrastic (lexical and grammatical) 12-18 months

Answer 5

One-word utterances

Mainly nouns used to label and name objects (concrete)

Question 6

Two-word (lexical and grammatical) 18-24 months

Answer 6

Two-word combinations
E.g. mummy drink
Marks beginning of syntactical development

Question 7

Telegraphic (lexical and grammatical) 24-36 months

Answer 7

Three or more words combined in increasingly complex and accurate orders.
Utterances similar to style and construction of a telegram in that function words are missed out, but content words are retained

Question 8

Post-telegraphic (lexical and grammatical) 36+ months

Answer 8

More grammatically complex combinations, when complex grammatical utterances are used with pronouns, correct tense etc.
Child becomes aware of irregularities