Stages Of Spoken Development

Question 1

When does the cooing stage occur?

Answer 1

Between 6 and 8 weeks old

Question 2

What are the features of the cooing stage?

Answer 2

Experimentation of sounds using tongue and lips
Vowels e.g. /u/ and /a/
Link these to produce extended sounds e.g. /ooo/

Question 3

When does the babbling stage begin?

Answer 3

Between 3-4 months

Question 4

What are the features of the babbling stage?

Answer 4

Contains elements of speech that are later important
Rising/falling intonations 
Use plosives and start to use bi-labials
C+v sequences 
Cluster reduction

Question 5

When do a child’s first words start to form and how?

Answer 5

10-15 months, reduplication

Question 6

What can a child do by one year?

Answer 6

Recognise sounds

Question 7

When does the holophrastic stage occur?

Answer 7

12-18 months

Question 8

What are the main features of the holophrastic stage?

Answer 8

Single word phrases which could give multiple meanings

E.g. ‘water’ = ‘There is water’, ‘I want water’

Question 9

How long does the telegraphic stage last?

Answer 9

24-36 months

Question 10

What are the features of the telegraphic stage?

Answer 10

Telegraphic utterances = condensed forms of sentence structure without function words
Use non-standard declaritives
Omission of closed class lexemes

Question 11

When is the post-telegraphic stage?

Answer 11

After the telegraphic stage, last stage