Typical speech and language development

Question 1

how is language acquisition special?

Answer 1

• Very complex development task but..
• Requires no explicit instruction
• Variable input
• self-motivated aquisition
• empirically separable from other intellectual tasks

Question 2

B/C language is special…

Answer 2

• Its acquisition is also special
• Understanding typical development necessary to understand atypical development
• Focus on similarities across languages but also differences

Question 3

What information do we have on year one production?

Answer 3

LANGUAGE SOUNDS
2-4 months: Crying cooing vocalizations (Non- target or even non-linguistic sounds)
6-8 months: Canonical babble
8-12 months: Variegated Babble
-Language specific babble drift

Question 4

(Proto) Language production words and meaning YEAR ONE

Answer 4

0-3 0-6 turn taking
photo words, painting and gestures
0-6 0-9 Intentional communication
Leading up to 1 Joint attention develops
-Communicative goals; requests, protests. comments/demonstrations

Question 5

What are the language sounds and perceptions in year one?

Answer 5

Intonation and mothers voice
4months: Language specific vowel discrimination
8months: Language specific consonant discrimination
10-12 months: All and only 1st language Sound categories also sound preferences (ex word stress)

Question 6

Second year characteristics?

Answer 6

-First words in comprehension
-Major step in understanding/ Learning words reference -comprehension lexicon can greatly exceed production
ex 5-100 words understood before first word spoken.
recognize own name.

Question 7

In what order do kids learn to speak?

Answer 7

1) nouns
2) Verbs
3) Functional words

Question 8

What is the common range of words by two years old?

Answer 8

50 -1000 words both common

Question 9

What are the typical first sounds?

Answer 9

B D M N W J and maybe P K T H G

Question 10

What does early language play look like at 2?

Answer 10

• Turn taking
• Here and now
• Not narratives
• No story telling

Question 11

What does the phonology look like at age 3?

Answer 11

• words bigger and longer
• Intonation not good
• Cant control breath
• Inventory grows adding (S,Z, F, L, T)

Question 12

What does the phonology look like at age 3?

Answer 12

• words bigger and longer
• Intonation not good
• Cant control breath
• Inventory grows adding (S, Z, F, L, T)

Question 13

What do we see in the “Pre-school morphology production”?

Answer 13

• Past tense (Ran, Run)
• (Feet, Foot)
• Over use of plural or singular

Question 14

Preschool syntax

Answer 14

• Building sentences with everything (learning how)
• Units needed
• Telegraphic speech (“Him making pizza”)

Question 15

Preschool narratives and pragmatics

Answer 15

• Telling stories

- Having conversations with others

Question 16

Years 4 and 5 Reading and literacy characteristics

Answer 16

Key component : Phonological awareness
Further growth of vocabulary
–> Connections to input, environment
Perspective : Average vocab at 6 is 8000 to 14,000 words