Child Language Acquisition

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  • Created on: 01-04-13 19:18
Stages of Development
Before Birth, Crying, Cooing, Babbling, Phonemic Expansion and Contraction, Intonation and Gesture, Understanding, The First Word
1 of 9
Final consonants dropped
Form of simplification by deletion, eg 't' off hat
2 of 9
Unstressed syllables removed
Form of simplification by deletion, eg 'banana' becomes 'nana'
3 of 9
Consonant clusters are reduced
Form of simplification by deletion, eg 'sleep' becomes 'seep'
4 of 9
R as in rock/story becomes W
Ways of simplification by substitution
5 of 9
Th as in there/thumb becomes D/N/F
Ways of simplification by substitution
6 of 9
T as in toe becomes D
Ways of simplification by substitution
7 of 9
Reduplication
A way of simplification when different sounds in a word are pronounced the same way, eg 'dog' becomes 'gog'
8 of 9
Understanding
Form of simplification, theorist Berko and Brown, fish to fis theory, proving that understanding may develop faster than the ability to pronounce
9 of 9

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Card 2

Front

Final consonants dropped

Back

Form of simplification by deletion, eg 't' off hat

Card 3

Front

Unstressed syllables removed

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

Consonant clusters are reduced

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

R as in rock/story becomes W

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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