Acquisition of a child's mother tongue

children are a focus of attention
1. and
  1. affection in all societies
    1. so pervasive is the common perception
      1. that the crying of a baby
        conveys
        crying is a direct precursor
in the first few months the language is crying
1. without speech
  1. during the FIRST WEEKS of
    1. a child's life, crying is largely an autonomic
      1. response to noxious stimuli
AFTER SEVERAL WEEKS
1. of extensive interaction
  1. with its caretaker
    1. the child starts to
      1. COO
canonical babbling
1. which emerges around EIGHT MONTHS
  1. the child's vocalizations
    1. narrow to syllables down
      1. begin to caretaker's language
ONE YEAR OLD
1. we come to the culmination
  1. of a child's early
    1. language development
      1. the first word
TWO YEARS OLD
1. begin to use two - words
  1. sentences consistently
TWO TO FOUR
1. children produce all kinds
  1. of a expressions and begin to
    1. construct or reconstruct
      1. their mother tongue
        common in this age are
        regular plurals for irregular ones
all children proceed systematically
1. through the same learning
  1. stages for any particular
    1. linguistic structure
the inquiring and acquiring
1. mind is the common denominator
  1. for alla aread of
    1. PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

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	Created by Manuel Alejandro Agudelo Guerrero about 4 years ago