Stages Of Development Flashcards
The Holophrastic Stage
- The Holophrastic Stage denotes the period of time when children speak using single words (or holophrases).
- Generally speaking, this happens between 9-18 months. The holophrases are predominately (but not always) nouns.
- The holophrases will often encompass many meanings and moods. For example, juice could mean:
- Can I have some juice? (Interrogative)
- Give me juice! (Imperative)
- There’s the juice. (declarative)
The Two-Word Stage
- this stage denotes utterances of two words only.
- This stage occurs between 18 and 24 months.
- Other word classes start to emerge, but nouns still dominate.
- Syntax is explored (correctly).
- Subject-verb (‘Robin jump’).
- Verb-object (‘jump dog’).
- Noun phrases (pre-mod adj + noun – ‘big dog’).
- Inflections are not applied to verbs.
Telegraphic
- The Telegraphic Stage denotes when a child is speaking using utterances with just enough information. This word ‘telegraphic’ stems from the word ‘telegram’.
- Roughly occurs between 24 and 30 months.
- A wider range of word classes are acquired (particularly pronouns, followed by determiners and prepositions).
- For example:
- ‘Rory want food’.
- ‘This coat all wet’.
Post-telegraphic
- From 2.5 years old onwards, there is rapid expansion through to 5 years old. In particular, more frequent adjectives.
- Between 3-5 years, the child enters the complex utterance stage (sometimes referred to as the Post-telegraphic Stage).
- This includes time features, contracted negatives and increasingly accurate inflections.
Negation
- Within the acquisition of language and word order, a child quickly learns to use negations.
- Between being Holophrastic and Two Word, the child starts to front negatives like ‘no like that’.
- As we approach the Telegraphic stage, the child is starting to place negatives before the main verb like ‘don’t like you’.
- Past this, negation is almost always correct and errors tend to be virtuous.
Bellugi negation stage 1, 2 & 3
Uses ‘no’ or ‘not’ at the beginning of the sentence. E.g no wear shoes, 2. Uses ‘no’ or ‘not inside the sentence e.g I no want it, 3. Attaches the negative to auxiliary verbs and the copula verb ‘be’ securely. E.g no, I don’t want to go to nursery. Or: I am not
Stages of Development - David Crystal. David Crystal states that children will have the following linguistic abilities at their disposal at these ages: up to 1 years old
Scribble talk’ – sounds like adult speech, but has no meaning.
David Crystal states that children will have the following linguistic abilities at their disposal at these ages: 1 years, 8months
- Around 50 words in their lexicon.
* Littered with reduplication and overextension.
David Crystal states that children will have the following linguistic abilities at their disposal at these ages: 2 years
- Inflections are emerging, but are insecure.
- Around 300 words known.
- Object permanence emerges. This is the understanding that objects exist even when you can’t see them.
David Crystal states that children will have the following linguistic abilities at their disposal at these ages: 3 years
- Up to 10 words are being used per sentence utterance.
- Vocabulary is too big and varied to accurately estimate.
- Irregular verbs and nouns cause problems (e.g. ‘run’ and ‘mouse’).
- Parataxis (the placing of clauses one after another, without connecting words) begins to be used.
- Multiple negation/double negatives start to happen – the child does not grasp that negatives cancel each other out.
- Contractions begin to be used.
Acquisition of Grammatical Constructions
Inflectional morphemes and other grammatical features (and grammatical words) are acquired in a specific order. Brown’s research proposes that they are learned in this order: 1-5
- Present progressive (-ing) – I am walking.
- Prepositions – by, on, at…
- Simple plural (-s, -es) – he walks.
- Possessive (- ‘s) – Trudi’s boat.
- Uncontracted copula – Stuart is acting.
Acquisition of Grammatical Constructions
Inflectional morphemes and other grammatical features (and grammatical words) are acquired in a specific order. Brown’s research proposes that they are learned in this order: 6-12
- Articles – the box, a dog.
- Regular past tense (-ed) – I walked.
- Third person regular verbs (-s) – Dave types.
- Third person irregular verbs – Suz teaches.
- Auxiliary verb ‘be’ – I am, he was, you are.
- Contracted copula – Stuart’s acting.
- Contracted auxiliary verb ‘be’ – I’m, you’re.
Katamba on Brown’s grammatical construction stages
Katamba argues that this order is the same regardless of parental input.
