Universal Stages of Development - CLA
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- Created on: 08-04-18 17:20
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- Universal stages of development
- Before Birth Stage
- before birth babies are becoming acclimatised to their native language
- babies as young as 4 days old can distinguish their native language
- babies become used to rhythm, intonation and language in the womb
- PRE VERBAL - up to 6 weeks old
- STAGE 1
- Crying Stage
- PRE VERBAL - up to 6 weeks old
- the baby will express itself through crying as everything is new
- different types of crying can be identifies prosodically
- hunger
- distress
- pleasure
- Cooing Stage
- PRE VERBAL - 6-8 weeks old
- gurgling or mewing
- reduplicated monosyllablesevident here
- mama
- bi labial sounds more frequent
- mama
- STAGE 2
- Babbling Stage
- PRE VERBAL/VERBAL - 6-9 months & 9-10 months
- 6-9 months
- the most important stage in the childs first year of life
- begins at 6-9 months and continues as the child begins to use actual speech
- children make sounds that resemble adult sounds but are not the same
- the most important stage in the childs first year of life
- 9 - 10 months
- utterances will sound like actual words but will have no attached meaning
- combinations of consonants and sounds are produced
- utterances will sound like actual words but will have no attached meaning
- STAGE 3
- Holophrastic Stage
- VERBAL - between 1-1 1/2 years old
- universalised single words are being used for a variety of meanings
- one word stage
- comprehension opposed to production
- more of a focus on perception and understanding
- STAGE 4
- Two Word Utterances Stage
- VERBAL - between 1 1/2-2 years
- no syntactical or morphological markers
- limited syntax ( object + verb sentence structure)
- STAGE 5
- Telegraphic Stage
- VERBAL - between 2-2 1/2 years
- lack of function words (determiners,prepositions, auxiliaries)
- use of content words in a S+V+O syntactical structure
- very few word order errors
- questions asked more frequently
- towards the age of three there is an advancementin grammatical abilities
- turn maintaining, multiple subordination
- majority of clauses linked by and, might occasionally use because
- STAGE 6
- Complex Stage
- VERBAL - between 3-5 years
- language acquisition is slow but vocabulary is developing
- develop morphology and function words with some overgeneralisation
- initial development in semantics
- most basic grammatical rules have been learned although some have yet to be mastered
- passive voice, etc
- STAGE 7
- Before Birth Stage
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