Syntax Development (And some lexis stuff)

Question 1

How many pre-verbal stages are there in first year of life? Name them

Answer 1

Vegetative Cooing BabblingProto-word stage

Question 2

What is the vegetative stage?

Answer 2

Crying in different ways for different demands

Question 3

How old are you when in the vegetative stage?

Answer 3

0-4 months old

Question 4

What happens in the cooing stage?

Answer 4

Vowel sounds are made with the mouth

Question 5

How old are you when in the cooing stage?

Answer 5

3-6 months old

Question 6

What happens in the babbling stage?

Answer 6

Repeated consonant and vowel sounds

Question 7

How old are you when in the babbling stage?

Answer 7

6-12 months old

Question 8

What is the proto-word stage?

Answer 8

Children invent words to mean certain things

Question 9

How old are you when in the proto-word stage?

Answer 9

9-12 months old

Question 10

Do all of these stages come after one another?

Answer 10

They overlap

Question 11

What is syntax?

Answer 11

The building of sentences

Question 12

What word stage is considered to be the start of syntax development?

Answer 12

Two word stage

Question 13

What word stage is considered to be the start of syntax development?

Answer 13

Brown

Question 14

What did they find in their study of why kids put words together?

Answer 14

Brown

Question 15

How many types of words can lexis be divided in to? What are they called?

Answer 15

2 divisionsGrammatical words Lexical words

Question 16

What are Grammatical words? With examples

Answer 16

Words that make a sentence comprehensible such as “For” or “Am” or “To” etc

Question 17

What are lexical words? With examples

Answer 17

Words that carry meaning like “Dinner” or “Pig” or “Red” etc