U1AoS2 - Child Language Acquisition

Question 1

Phonetics

Answer 1

Individual speech sounds that link to the International Phonetic Alphabet

Question 2

Phonology

Answer 2

Sound Systems and patterns of sounds

Question 3

Phoneme

Answer 3

Distinct unit of sound

Question 4

Voiced Sounds

Answer 4

Uses vibration of the vocal chords

Question 5

Voiceless Sounds

Answer 5

No vibration of the vocal chords
p, f, t, s, k, th

Question 6

Prosodic Features

Answer 6

Pitch, Intonation, Volume, Tempo and Stress

Question 7

Pitch

Answer 7

High or low sounds

Question 8

Intonation

Answer 8

Pattern of changes of pitch, rise and fall

Question 9

Volume

Answer 9

Loudly vs Quietly

Question 10

Tempo

Answer 10

Faster vs slower pace

Question 11

Stress

Answer 11

Emphasise

Question 12

Place of articulation

Answer 12

Articulators in our mouth make sound eg. lips, tongue, teeth and palate
Sounds produced through either oral and naval cavity

Question 13

Connected speech processes

Answer 13

Assimilation, elision, vowel reduction and insertion

Question 14

Assimilation

Answer 14

Sounds change as they are affected by neighboring sounds.

Question 15

Elision

Answer 15

Omission of vowels and consonants

Question 16

Vowel reduction

Answer 16

unstressed sounds change and become a schwa

Question 17

insertion

Answer 17

extra sounds or syllables

Question 18

Learning

Answer 18

intentional process
presupposes teaching
teacher controls pace

Question 19

Acquisition

Answer 19

subconscious, natural process
does not presuppose teaching
child controls pace (different rate)

Question 20

Developmental stages

Answer 20

• Child language acquisition follows a predictable sequence
• variation of age
• characterised by acquisition of particular abilities.

Question 21

Pre-verbal stage age range

Answer 21

0 - 3 months

Question 22

Pre - verbal stage characteristics

Answer 22

• baby’s vocal and body responses differ
• receive and recognise a voice
• turn-taking skills that imitate conversation
• different cry for different needs
• use vowels
• impulse

Question 23

What is the pre-verbal stage?

Answer 23

Refers to anything a baby says or does before meaningful words are used

Question 24

Babbling stage age range

Answer 24

3 - 12 months

Question 25

Babbling stage at 3 months

Answer 25

• produce a range of speech sounds deliberately
• mostly vowels
• communicate contentment and discomfort
• recognise unfamiliar sounds
• star to smile

Question 26

Babbling stage at 4-6 months

Answer 26

• tone
• vocal play
• urgent tone
• voiced bilabial sounds (b,p)
• stops and nasals
• reduplication (ba ba ba)

Question 27

Babbling stage at 7 - 12 months

Answer 27

• connection between meaning and word
• recognition of objects
• respond to a direction

Question 28

One word stage

Answer 28

• discovering connection between sound/meaning
• one word takes place of whole phrase
• deliberate
• internation/emphasise
• use words with most information
• naming before asking
• learning familiar objects/people
• social value of speech

Question 29

One word stage age range

Answer 29

12 - 18 months

Question 30

Two word stage age range

Answer 30

1 - 2 years

Question 31

Two word stage characteristics

Answer 31

• two word utterances
• subject and verb, verb and object, adjective and noun
• rely on open class words
• produce 50 - 200 words