Unit 1 AOS 2

Question 1

what is a critical period?

Answer 1

a period during someone’s development in which a particular skill or characteristic is believed to be most readily acquired

Question 2

Universal grammar

Answer 2

All children are born with an innate ability to acquire, develop, and understand language.

Question 3

Usage-based

Answer 3

children use language that is acquired through use, exposure and practice

Question 4

universal grammar is based on whos theories

Answer 4

Noam Chomsky (1960s)

Question 5

Pre-lingusitic

Answer 5

Birth to six months
communicate in a basic form - such as crying (hunger, discomfort and pain)

Question 6

babbling stage

Answer 6

6 to 12 months of age
makes repetitive vocal sounds
consonant-vowel sounds

Question 7

holophrastic stage

Answer 7

12 to 18 months
use one-word communication
use various sounds of words and gestures.

Question 8

Two-word stage

Answer 8

18 to 24 months
develop a greater understanding of syntactic and semantic relation
two-word construction mainly consist of noun and verb combinations

Question 9

Telegraphic stage

Answer 9

24 to 30 months
communicate meaning by combining content words
omitting grammatical function worlds e.g. ‘i want to pat doggy’ and ‘i go shops’

Question 10

Multi-word stage

Answer 10

around 30 months
begin using grammatical function words along with content words
sentences become more complex
their syntactic knowledge has increased