Zusammenfassung der Ressource
First language acquisition
- Happens
- Long before a child starts school
- A system for self expression and communication also it is a capacity for language with which each newborn is endowed
- Basic requirements (during the first two or three years of development
- Need
- interaction with other language users
- To be physically capable of sending and receiving sound signals in language
- The acquisition schedule
- The language acquisition schedule has the same basis as the biologically determined development of motor skills
- Caregiver speech
- The simplified speech style adopted by someone who spends a lot of interacting with a young child
- For example
- Simplified words with repeated simple sounds and syllables
- (Tummy,nana)(choo choo, poo poo, pee pee,wawa
- Is
- Cooing
(4-5months )
- And
- The earliest use of speech-like sounds
- Particularly high vowels similar to (i) and (u)
- Babbling
6-8months
- Is the production of a number of different vowels and consonants,as well as combinations
- Such as
- (Ba-ba-ba)(ga-ga-ga)
- Later babbling stage has more ,complex syllable combinations.Nasal sounds also become more common
- (Ma-ma,da-da,
- The one-word stage
12-18 months
- Children begin to produce a variety of recognizable single-unit utterances
- Is characterized
- By speech in which single terms are uttered for everyday objects
- Such as
- Milk,cookie,cat,cup and spoon
- The two-word stage
18-20months
- Two distinct words used together
- Vocabulary
- Moves beyond fifty words
- For example
- Baby chair,mommy eat,cat bad.
- By the age of two,wether the child is producing 200 or 300 distinct words he or she will be capable of understanding five times as many.
- Telegraphic speech
2-2 1/2 years old
- This is characterized by strings of words(lexical morphemes) ,grammatical inflections begin to appear in some of word-forms and simple prepositions
- Such as
- (This shoe all wet,cat drink milk,daddy go bye-bye)
- By three the vocabulary has grown to hundreds of words and pronunciation has become closer to the form of adult language
- At this point
- It is worth considering what kid of influence, if any, the adults have in the development of the child's speech
- The acquisition process for
The child's linguistic production appears to be mostly a matter of trying out constructions and testing wether they work or not
- Developing syntax
- Forming questions
- Forming negatives
- Developing semantics