Stages of Language Aquisition

Question 1

What are the 5 stages of CLA?

Answer 1

pre verbal, holophrastic, two word, telegraphic, post telegraphic

Question 2

What 3 noises are made in the pre-verbal stage?

Answer 2

crying, cooing and babbling

Question 3

When does cooing start?

Answer 3

At around 2 months of age.

Question 4

What is cooing?

Answer 4

It resembles the vowel and consonant sounds in spoken language.

Question 5

At what age does babbling start?

Answer 5

6 months.

Question 6

What are the two types of babbling?

Answer 6

Reduplicated and variegated.

Question 7

What is reduplicated babbling?

Answer 7

The repetition of the same sound. (E.g. ‘bababa’)

Question 8

What is variegated babbling?

Answer 8

It involves variation in the consonant and vowel sounds being made. (E.g ‘daba’)

Question 9

When does the holophrastic stage usually start?

Answer 9

Between 12 and 18 months.

Question 10

What is the holophrastic stage?

Answer 10

When children use individual words to communicate.

Question 11

When are first words usually spoken?

Answer 11

Around the child’s first birthday.

Question 12

What are common first words?

Answer 12

mummy, daddy, or some form of concrete noun.

Question 13

When does the two word stage begin?

Answer 13

Around 18 months.

Question 14

What is the two word stage?

Answer 14

When a child puts 2 words together to convey meaning.

Question 15

What do children start to understand in the two word stage?

Answer 15

Grammar.

Question 16

What is the vocabulary spurt?

Answer 16

When children realise that everything around them has a name & they gain ‘naming insight’. They move from slow lexical development to a period of more rapid acquisition.

Question 17

When does the telegraphic stage start?

Answer 17

Around age 2.

Question 18

What is the telegraphic stage?

Answer 18

Child begins to make longer and more complete utterances.

Question 19

What does telegraphic speech involve & omit?

Answer 19

Involves key content words and omits grammatical words.

Question 20

What are grammatical words?

Answer 20

Words that are required for structural accuracy but not for conveying meaning.

Question 21

When does the post-telegraphic stage occur?

Answer 21

Around age 3.

Question 22

What is the post telegraphic stage?

Answer 22

Where a child’s speech becomes increasingly like an adults.

Question 23

What appears in a child’s speech when they reach the post-telegraphic stage?

Answer 23

Grammatical words.

Question 24

What is a child usually doing by age 4?

Answer 24

Speaking almost like an adult (grammatically accurate, complete sentences)

Question 25

What stage is this child in?
‘Daddy bye-bye’

Answer 25

Two word stage.

Question 26

What stage is this child in?
‘We going to the park’

Answer 26

Telegraphic.

Question 27

What stage is this child in?
‘I don’t like this pasta’

Answer 27

Post telegraphic.