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Child Language Acquisition - Coggle Diagram
Child Language Acquisition
In nearly all cases, children's language development follows a predictable sequence, there are 5 stages within this sequence.
Stage 1
Babbling
Typical age for this stage is from 6-8 months after birth
During this stage there are repetitive CV patterns
Stage 2
One-word stage
Holophrastic stage
Typical age for this stage is from 9-18 months after birth
Single open-class words or word stems
Stage 3
Two word stage
Typical age for this stage is from 18-24 months
"Mini-sentences" with simple semantic relations
Stage 4
Telegraphic stage
Early multi word stage
Typical age for this stage is from24-30 months
"Telegraphic" sentence structures of lexical rather than functional or grammatical morphemes
Stage 5
Later multi word stage
Typical age for this stage is from 30+ months
Grammatical or functional structures emerge
The term language
acquisition refers to
the development of
language in children.
By age 6, children have usually mastered most of the basic vocabulary and grammar of their first language.
For children, acquiring a language is an effortless achievement that occurs:
Without explicit teaching
On the basis of positive evidence (i.e., what they hear)
Under varying circumstances, and in a limited amount of time
In identical ways across different languages.
Children achieve linguistic milestones in parallel fashion, regardless of the specific language they are exposed to
Mature speech patterns (Jean Aitchison, The Language Web: The Power and Problem of Words. Cambridge University Press, 1997)