Stages in First Language Acquisition

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INDEX

1. Pre-talking stage

6. Later multiword stage

2. Babbling stage

3. Holophrastic stage

4. The two-word stage

5. Telegraphic stage

INDEX

6. Gallry

11. Comparison

12. Data

7. Quotes

2. List

13. Team

8. Process

3. Quote

1. Section

14. Thanks

4. TextImage

9. Timeline

10. Map

Pre-talking stage / Cooing (0-6 months)

Infants make vegetative sounds / reflexive vocalizations from birth (crying, sucking noises and burps)

At around 6 weeks, we start getting cooing sounds followed by vocal play between 16 weeks and 6 months

This vocal play involves sounds that appear similar to speech but containing no meaning

Babbling stage (6-8 months)

Babbling is different from vocal play in that it contains true syllables (generally CV syllables as in ‘wa wa’ for ‘water’).

Babbling is the sounds which infants produce as consonant-vowel combinations.

The sounds which are produced by infants but not all the speech sounds are same in language of the world such as [ma-ma-ma] or [da-da-da] and [ba-ba-ba] or [na-na-na].

Holophrastic stage (9-18 months)

Holophrastic can be defined from holo “complete” or “undivided” plus phrase “phrase” or “sentence”.

So holophrastic is the children's first single word which represent to a sentence

Children using one word to express particular emotional state. For example, Debby's mother recorded the words she had pronounced during the 8 months after the appearance of her first word at 9 months (this was [adi], used both for her "daddy").

The two-word stage (18-24 months)

Two-word stage is the mini sentences with simple semantic relations

Children begin to form actual two-word sentences, with the relations between the two words showing definite syntactic and semantic relations and the intonation contour of the two words extending over the whole utterance rather than being separated by a pause between the two words.

Telegraphic stage (24-30 months)

When the child begins to produce utterances that are longer than two words, these utterances appear to be “sentence-like”; they have hierarchical, constituent structures similar to the syntactic structures found in the sentences produced by adult grammar

He/she is able to build a sentence, although there are some mistakes. Telegraphic is merely a descriptive term because the child does not deliberately leave out the noncontent words, as does an adult sending a telegram

Later multiword stage (30+months)

Later multiword stage: a child is able to produce the clear pronunciation and vocabulary increases

At this stage is fastest increase in vocabulary with many new additions everyday; no babbling at all; utterances have communicative intent. There is a great variation among children, seems to understand everything said within hearing and directed to them

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