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L1 acquisition - Coggle Diagram
L1 acquisition
The Acquisition Schedule
cooing
example
Japanese infants lose the ability to distinguish [r] and [l] after six months, whereas English-speaking babies retain this perception.
Infants uncover the sounds of their ambient language during their first year. After six months, they lose the ability to discriminate non-phonemic sounds.
Babbling
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During the first year of life, the infant’s perceptions and productions are being fine-tuned to the surrounding language(s).
The One-Word Stage (the holophrasic stage, the whole-phrase stage)
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The Two-Word Stage
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Adult interpretation of such combinations is tied to the context of their utterance.
e.g., baby chair: “This is baby’s chair”, “put baby in chair”
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A variety of word combinations appear
e.g., baby chair, mommy eat, cat bad, shoe off
The child not only produces speech but also receives feedback confirming the utterance worked as a contribution to the interaction.
By the age of two, the child can understand five times more than s/he can produce. (i.e., Comprehension exceeds production.)
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Caregiver Speech(motherese, child-directed speech)
features
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exaggerated intonation, extra loudness
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