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Beginnings of language development
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Child Language Acquisition Mind Map
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Beginnings of language development
Stages of development
Children don't all develop at same pace
Children all around world DO pass through same sets of stages
Universal pattern of development, regardless of lang being acquired
Before birth
Evidence suggests even in womb, growing baby listens (acclimatises) to sounds of native lang
Mehler (1988)
Fr new born babies able to distinguish Fr from other langs
Crying
First few weeks - child expresses itself vocally through crying
Singles hunger, distress / pleasure
Instinctive noise (so not lang)
Cooing
A.K.A gurgling / mewing
6 - 8 weeks old
'Coo', 'gaga' & 'goo'
Child develops increasing control over vocal chords
Babbling
Most important stage in 1st year
6 - 9 months old
Sounds begin to resemble adult sounds more closely
Bilabial (lips) sounds most common
Using lips to make sounds
When these sounds repeated = reduplicated monosyllable
Sounds have NO MEANING
Baby makes far more noise than before
Exercises & experiments w/ its articulators
Parts of body that makes them sounds
Phonemic expansion
ab - cab, tab, gab, lab
Repition
Phoneme - smallest element of sound in lang
Can display contrast & hence change meaning or function of word
During babbling, no of diff phonemes produced expands
Phonemic contraction
9 - 10 Months
No of phonemes produced reduces to those found in native land (contracts)
Baby discards sounds not required
Evidence
Noises made by children of diff nationalities start to sound diff
Experiments
Native adults have successfully identified babies from own countries
Intonation
9 - 10 months
Intonation patterns begin to resemble speech
Common - rising intonation at end of utterance
Other variations in rhythm / emphasis may suggest greeting / calling
Gesture
9 - 10 months
Although they don't get have power of speech, desire to communicate indicated through gesture
Example
Point object - 'What's that?' face expression
Beginning of prag development
Rec social context affects meaning
Understanding
Although child may not begin to speak they might understand meaning of certain words
Word recognition
Usually evident by end of 1st year
Common
Names. 'no' & 'bye- bye'
The first word
Somewhere around 12 months child makes its first recognisable word
Glossary
Acclimatised
Instinctive
Cooing
Babbling
Bilabial (lips
Re- duplicated monosyllable
Phonemic Contraction
Phonemic Expansion
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