Two Word Stage

Question 1

What age does the 2 word stage occur

Answer 1

18 months - 2 years

Question 2

How many words are in their vocabulary by this age

Answer 2

200 words or more

Question 3

What are some features

Answer 3

Rising intonation
Negatives
Dropping unstressed syllables eg: potato = tato
Consonant clusters
Reduplication of phonemes to simplify pronunciation

Question 4

What’s pivot schema and who created it

Answer 4

Braine identified how children use patterns of two word utterances that seem to revolve around key words

Eg: “all gone milk, all gone dinner” (pivot is all gone and schema is dinner)

Caregivers may do this as “what does the doggy say?” “What does the __ say?”

Question 5

Examples of grammatical sequences children use in the 2 word stage

Answer 5

“Susie juice” (subject + object)
“Eat apple” (verb + object)

Question 6

What’s labelling?

Answer 6

When children associate a pattern of sounds (phonemes) with an object in the environment

Question 7

What’s it called when a child seems to label multiple objects with one label eg: dog as any animal with 4 legs

Answer 7

Overextension

Question 8

What’s the packaging stage?

Answer 8

This stage involves putting something in something else .

Objects that can be put under one label. This can be shown through under extension and
Overextension

Question 9

What’s the difference between hypernyms and hyponyms?

Answer 9

Hypernyms - more general than a hyponym (a single hypernym will have several hyponyms)

Eg:
hypernym- flower
Hyponyms - tulips, daffodils, rose, lily, buttercup

Question 10

What do hypernyms and hyponyms fall under?

Answer 10

Network building

• where children understand something further and make connections eg: spaniel being a type of dog