English Language: CLA- stages of lang acqusition
- Created by: saiqa saleem
- Created on: 30-05-13 14:37
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- Stages of Language Acqusition
- Crying- Birth
- - Different messages in crying. -attention for hunger/ pain/discomfort (REFLEXIVE CRIES). VEGETATIVE NOISES- sucking, coughing, burping, vomiting.
- Cooing- 6 weeks
- Vowel like sounds. seems universal. Cooing and laughing response to care giver.
- Babbling- 6 months
- Consonants /Vowels made with Lips/teeth. experiments with mouth + tongue=control over vocal organs. Babbling not universal, varies in intonation between languages (WEIR 1966). babbling drift where babbling moves in direct of lang heard (Cruttenden 1970)
- REDUPICATED babbling- dadada. VARIEGATED babbling- adu maba
- Intonation patterns- 8years
- Mimicking speech esp. like a Q (rising). possibly due to parents
- 1 word utterances- 1yr
- average 15 words- names of people and things.
- 2 Word utterances- 1 1/2 yrs
- Mean length of utterance (MLU) increases, calculates in terms of morphemes. TELEGRAPHIC-ommitting articles, pronouns, verb endings BUT uses nouns + verb in order.
- Crying- Birth
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