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Child Language Acquisition - Coggle Diagram
Child Language Acquisition
First Sounds 0-6m
biologically conditioned pre-linguistic noises 0-3m
wider range of noises eg "der" 3-6m
signal needs
deaf children do the same things - inate
Babbling 6-12m
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mimic intonation, join in conversations with an understanding of turn taking 6-9m
respond to name and familiar objects + proto-words (chatter/scribble talk) to respond to instructions if they have a gesture 9-12
still pre-linguistic
Holophrastic 12m
one word utterances
mainly nouns and verbs
over and under-generalisations
over-extension / hyper and hyponyms
egocentric speech used
no function words yet
Halliday and Dore's functions
Two Word Stage 18m
no function words
begin to learn syntax (noun proceeds the verb)
2 noun forms used (mummy sock)
Brown's meaning relations 70s
questions: rising intonation then advance to 'wh' words
grammatical markers such as tense/plurals/possession are omitted
Telegraphic 24m+
3 or more words combined
past tense stages
Clark's 1973 locative preposition stages
active > passive voice
stages of plural use
more or less phenomenon
morpheme acquisition: irregular usage at first but develop in a fixed order (nature>nurture)
syntax learnt - virtuous errors from over-generalisations