Section 1: Stages of first language acquisition. Flashcards
Stages of first-language acquisition
Children go through how many recognizable stages in development of their primary language skill?
They go through 5 stages.
Stages of first-language acquisition
When does the first stage occur?
What is it’s name?
Between six and eight months old
The babbling stage.
During the babbling stage what kind of patterns does the child make with their mouth?
The child begins making repetitive patterns of sound with their mouth.
stages of first language acquisition
What is the second stage?
When does it occur?
The second stage is known as one-word or (morpheme) stage
It extends from nine to eighteen months of age.
What occurs during the morpheme stage?
The child begins to make basic word stems and single open-class words.
What is the third stage of first language acquisition and when does it occur?
The two word stage
It extends from eighteen to twenty-four months.
What occurs during the two word stage?
The child begins making miniature sentences with simple semantic relationships.
What is the fourth stage of first language acquisition and when does it occur?
The telegraphic or (multiword or multimorpheme stage)
It occurs from twenty-four to thirty months.
In what stages does a child begin to express sentence structure with lexical rather than functional or grammatical morphemes?
The Telegraphic stage. (or multiword or multimorpheme stage)
What is the fifth stage of first language acquisition?
The later multiword stage.
When does the later multiword stage occur?
typically after thirty months.
What are characteristics of the later multi word stage?
The characteristic grammatical or functional structures of the primary language emerge and are incorporated.
