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Lexical & Semantic Development
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Child language acquisition mind map about the early stages of development.
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Lexical & Semantic Development
Lexical development
Child's acquisition of words
Semantic development
Child's acquisition of meanings associated w/ those words
REMEMBER
Vocab acquisition does NOT end at certain age
We cont hearing & learning new words throughout life
Rate of acquisition
End of 1st yr
Child begins to speak
18 months
Vocab of about 50 words
2 yrs
Vocab of about 200 words
5 yrs
Vocab about 2,000 words
7 yrs
Vocab about 4,000 words
Understanding
Prev figures refer to word use
At each stage, no of words understood by child is expected to be higher
18 months - 250 words understood
Meanings
When a child adds new word to vocab, they are NOT immediately aware of its full range of meanings
More time required to acquire this additional knowledge
First words
Research has shown there are predictable patterns in the words & word classes first acquired by children
Entities
Properties
Actions
Personal - social
Predictably a large proportion of child's 1st words refer to familiar people, objects & aspects of social interaction
Word classes
Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Concrete nouns
5 - 7 yrs
Abstract nouns begin to be used
Grammatical function words
Noticeably absent in early stages of lexical acquisition
Under - Extension
Common semantic error made by children
Word is given a narrower (under extended) meaning
'Cat' is family pet but NOT other cats
Over - Extension
Another common semantic error
Opposite of under - extension
Word is given a broader (more gen) meaning
'Daddy' for all men not just daddy
More common then under - extension
50 word vocab
1/3 likely to be over - extended
Getting it right
Age 2 1/2
Marked decrease in no of over - extensions
Explanation
Child's vocab
Understanding
Remember
Children's understanding of word meanings is ahead of ability to produce corresponding words
Aitchinson (1987)
3 stages / processes occur during acquisition of vocab
Labelling
Packaging
Network building
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