Acquisition of the mother tongue in childhood

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Mind Map on Acquisition of the mother tongue in childhood, created by Carlos Eduardo on 04/09/2022.
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Acquisition of the mother tongue in childhood
  1. Psycholinguistics
    1. is a comprehensive discipline
      1. embraces many aspects of linguistic behavior
        1. Psychology of language
          1. studies the structures and processes in the use of language and speech
          2. Language acquisition
            1. is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language
        2. developmental psycholinguistics examines
          1. How speech emerges over time
            1. How children go about constructing the complex structures of their mother tongue
              1. Children are a focus of attention and affection in all societies
          2. Crying stage
            1. crying is not only communicative
              1. it is also a direct precursor to both language and speech
                1. Human symbolic communication
                  1. crying is a direct preparation for a lifetime of vocal communication
                  2. Spoken language
                    1. crying helps learning to produce linguistic sounds
                2. Cooing stage
                  1. the child starts to coo
                    1. making soft gurgling sounds to express satisfaction
                3. Babbling stage
                  1. refers to the natural tendency of children about two months of age to burst out in strings of consonant-vowel syllable clusters
                    1. Some psycholinguists distinguish between
                      1. Marginal babbling
                        1. an early stage similar to coving where infants produce a few consonants
                        2. Canonical babbling
                          1. usually emerges at around eight months
                            1. the child's vocalizations narrow down to syllables that begin to approximate the syllables of the caretaker's language
                    2. First words
                      1. a child crosses this linguistic Rubicon at about one year old
                        1. it seems that children often use idiomorphs
                          1. words they invent when they first catch on to the magical notion that certain sounds have a unique reference
                            1. A survey of the words children first learn to say shows that they tend to be those which refers to prominent everyday objects
                              1. things that can be manipulated by the child
                        2. Holophrastic stage
                          1. is the use of single words as skeletal sentences
                            1. complex ideas are sometimes expressed with single word
                              1. accompanied by gestures
                            2. holophrastic speech is the bridge which transports the child from the primitive land of cries, words, and names
                              1. across into the brave new world of phrases, clauses, and sentences
                              2. all children begin to create sentences after the holophrastic stage
                                1. first with two words and subsequently with more
                                  1. children progress through different stages of grammatical development
                                    1. measured largely by the average number of words occurring per utterance
                            3. Child language acquisition
                              1. a child's linguistic surroundings determine its mother tongue
                                1. Children are prone to come up with all kinds of words and expressions which they have never heard in their mono- or bilingual environments
                                  1. Children creatively construct their grammars based on what they have learned
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