This document explores child language acquisition through analyzing a transcript of a child's conversation. It describes the stages of language development, including the non-verbal stage, holophrastic stage using single words, two-word stage with simple sentences, and telegraphic stage with more complex sentences typical of toddlers. The transcript shows the child responding with short responses, some mispronunciations, and not fully understanding depth of questions.

1. Explore child language acquisition
through recording of a transcript and
an analysis using the subsystems.

2.  1) Non-verbal stage
 Actions speak louder than words
 2) Holophrastic Stage
 Single words, generally nouns (things the
Child wants)
 3) Two-Word Stage
 Self explanitary, pronouns
 4) Telegraphic Stage
 Able to create simple sentences, generally at
the same stage as toddlers.

3.  What did you have for dinner
tonight?  Look at Zara. Did you have any
tt∫i p i: s (Chippies) dessert?
je Ѳ (yeth)
 And What else?
f i: ∫ e (Fiishuh)
 And What did you have?
 Fish? keik (cayke)
Ѳ:c Ѳ (Thorth)
 What kind of cake?
 Sauce! And Was it yummy? t∫oΏklt keik (choclt)
je Ѳ (yeth)
 And, Who’s birthday is it today?
 Yeah, and do you know what I had lu:ka:t∫s (lucaths)
for tea tonight? Mummy had
chicken risotto  Luca’s, and do you know how old
*undistinguishable* j^k (Yuck!) Luca is?
na* (no)
 Did you have any dessert? Do you think he might be two?
jep (Yep) na faur (no, four)

5.  Prompts
 Open ended
 Did not generally
answer questions
with full
sentences.

6.  Major differences.
 “S” prononced as
“Th”
 Still growing into
body
 Pronunciation
generally improves
with reading skills.

7.  Barelydeveloped
 Comes with age
 Generalise,
doesn’t
understand the in-
depth

8.  Further Reading on Semantics  All other information found in
Semantics - meanings, etymology and text book.
the
lexicon,http://www.teachit.co.uk/armo
ore/lang/semantics.htm, © Andrew  Everything noted with an * is supposed
Moore, 2000; Accessed 19/10/2011 to be upside-down

Further Reading on Morphology
Subsystems of Language , Author
Unknown
 ttp://www.chss.montclair.edu/linguistic
s/lingpage/faculty/fitz/hel/week2.PDF,
Accsessed 22/10/2011
 Great website for the IPA
International Phonetic Alphabet, Author
and Date Unknow, Transcript Transcribed
using this website."
http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronun
c-soundsipa.htm, Accsessed 22/10/2011

 Language Acquisition
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fal
l_1998/ling001/acq.html