Language Acquisition: Lecture 1 Beginnings of Acquisition
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This document outlines the stages of early language development in children. It discusses that before birth, babies become acclimated to their native language in the womb. From 6-8 weeks, babies begin cooing and making vowel-like sounds as they gain control of their vocal cords. The most important stage is babbling from 6-9 months, when babies experiment with consonant and vowel combinations like "ba" and "ma". Through babbling, babies expand and then contract the phonemes they produce to those of their native language. Gestures also begin as babies want to communicate without words, and by 12 months most children say their first recognizable word.
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Oral language development occurs in stages from birth through age 4. Babies first coo and babble consonant-vowel sounds between 4-6 months. Around 8-10 months, babbling becomes more varied and complex, resembling adult speech. From 1 year, children use single words and invented words. Between ages 2-3, they speak in short telegraphic phrases. By ages 3-4, most children are moderately fluent using oral language for communication. The development is facilitated through interactions with caregivers and peers in language-rich environments.
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There are four main stages of first language acquisition:
1. Pre-speech stage from 0-12 months where infants learn speech patterns without using words.
2. One-word ("holophrastic") stage from 12-18 months where children use single words to communicate ideas.
3. Two-word stage from 18-24 months where children start combining two words in sentences.
4. Telegraphic stage from 24-36 months where children use multiple word sentences that may be grammatically incomplete. Language acquisition is supported by an innate capacity and occurs through imitation and understanding of concepts before words.
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This document summarizes the key stages and processes of child language acquisition. It notes that children typically acquire fluent control of a language within a few years, with mastery by age 5. The major stages include pre-language babbling from 6 months, a one-word stage around 12 months, two-word combinations by 18 months, telegraphic speech by age 2-3, and basic mastery of phonology, morphology and syntax by ages 4-5. Acquisition continues throughout life with vocabulary expansion. The document also outlines theories of language learning like imitation, hypothesis testing, and innate capacities.
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1) Children begin developing language skills at a young age, with many saying their first words around age 1 and having vocabularies of 30-50 words by age 1.5.
2) Early language development includes creating "idiomorphs", words children invent to refer to objects, as well as beginning to use speech without directly addressing others.
3) As children develop, they progress from one-word "holophrastic" sentences to using more complex grammar and phrase structures in their language.
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- 1. Lecture One Beginnings of Language Development
- 2. Stages of development … • NB: Children do not all develop at the same pace. • However: Children all around the world do pass through the same set of stages. There is a universal pattern of development, regardless of the language being acquired.
- 3. Before birth … • Evidence suggests that even in the womb, the growing baby acclimatises to the sounds of its native language. • Mehler 1988: French new born babies were able to distinguish French from other languages.
- 4. Crying … • First few weeks: child expresses itself vocally through crying. • Signals hunger, distress or pleasure. • Instinctive noise (so not language).
- 5. Cooing … • Also known as gurgling or mewing. • 6-8 weeks old. • ‘Coo’, ‘ga-ga’ and ‘goo’. • Child develops increasing control over vocal chords.
- 6. Babbling … • Most important stage in the first year. • 6-9 months old. • Sounds begin to resemble adult sounds more closely.
- 7. Babbling … • Consonant and vowel combinations: ‘ba’, ‘ma’ and ‘da’. • Bilabial sounds most common (i.e. using the lips). • When these sounds are repeated = reduplicated monosyllable.
- 8. Babbling … • These sounds have no meaning. • Baby makes far more noise than before. • Exercises and experiments with its articulators (parts of the body that make sounds).
- 9. Phonemic expansion … • Phoneme: smallest element of sound in a language that can display contrast and hence change meaning or function of a word, e.g. initial sounds in ban and Dan. • During babbling, number of different phonemes produced increases (expands).
- 10. Phonemic contraction … • 9-10 months. • Number of phonemes produced reduces to those found in the native language (contracts). • Baby discards sounds not required.
- 11. Phonemic contraction … • Evidence: noises made by children of different nationalities starts to sound different. • Experiments: native adults have successfully identified babies from own country.
- 12. Intonation … • Intonation patterns begin to resemble speech. • Common: rising intonation at end of utterance. • Other variations in rhythm/emphasis may suggest greeting or calling.
- 13. Gesture … • Although they do not yet have the power of speech, desire to communicate indicated through gesture. • Example: point to object and use facial expression, ‘What’s that?’. • Beginnings of pragmatic development (i.e. recognising that social context affects meaning).
- 14. Understanding … • Although child may not begin to speak, they might understand meanings of certain words. • Word recognition: usually evident by end of first year. • Common: names, ‘no’ and ‘bye-bye’.
- 15. The first word … • Somewhere around 12 months the child makes its first recognizable word.
- 16. New vocabulary … • Acclimatised • Instinctive • Cooing • Babbling • Bilabial • Re-duplicated monosyllable • Phonemic expansion • Phonemic contraction