Children begin developing language from a very early age. By around 12 months, most children will say their first words and by 16 months will have a vocabulary of 30-50 words on average. Children also invent their own words called "idiomorphs" to refer to objects. Additionally, children engage in "egocentric speech" where they talk to themselves without addressing anyone in particular as a way to describe what they are doing. The ability to learn and produce language develops rapidly in the first year of life as infants listen to patterns in language and begin to decompose words.

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2. - First words Your child will probably
say his first word right around his first
birthday (what a nice present for
Mom!). By 16 months, she'll be able
to say a handful of words—an
average of 50 for girls and 30 for
boys. (Boys tend to develop speech
about a month or two later.)

3. IDIOMORPHS

4. EXAMPLE FOR IDIOMORPHS
 (Reich, 1986). For example, a child may
have a special invented word that refers to a
toy or to his personal blanket. This
idiomorphs is a “word” in the sense that it is
stable and used to refer to a particular
object on a consistent basis. In addition to
these invented words, children also produce
more conventional words that resemble
adult pronunciation and meaning.

5. WHAT IS EGOCENTRIC
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6. Egocentric speech
Explanation:
Egocentric speech is a form of speech
that is observed typically in young
children, and involves them using
speech without addressing anyone in
particular. In the following sections we
will learn more about this speech and
understand its many components.

7. - To give an example ;
--observe a young child at play. You will
find that a child has the tendency of
talking to himself and literally giving a
commentary of what he/she is doing.
While feeding a doll, or playing with a car,
for example, they'll say something like
'Now I'm going to feed the doll' .
Two children photo

8. Children quite naturally want to
talk about what surround them
Parents fuss a great deal over
their children first word
Every children have a got ability to
learn speaking and writing
What do first word represent ?

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10. The birth of grammar
 Babies start learning grammar from the
moment they're born, a study has revealed.
 Researchers found that in their first year of
life, infants are listening intently to language
and deconstructing word patterns.

11. Holophrastic
 term used to describe one-word sentences
used by small children .
 Using or consisting of a single word that
functions as a phrase or sentences.
 Examples for holophrastic
 The children were matched for mean length
of utterance, all subjects
performing at the holophrastic level

12. Transformational generative
grammar
Chomsky’s model of grammar which posits a set of
grammatical rules or transformation which operate on
phrase structure to generate all and only of the
sentence of a language .

13. CHOMSKY IN 1957 DEVIDED SENTENCES IN
SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE
 syntactic structure
Deep
structure
Surface
structure

14. PIVOT
Word used by young
children either to begin or
end a two word utterance .
For example :
Dady car

15. AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
A language used by the
deaf or hearing impaired in
the United States.it is
based on manual and facial
movement

16. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHILD
AND CHIMPANZEES
Child they can
produce variety
of words .
Child little
repetition
e.g :it ball
See ball
Get ball
 chimp cannot
make the
sounds of
human
language
More repetition
Eat drink eat
drink

17. PHRASE STRUCTURE RULES
The syntactic skeleton of a
sentence which specifies all
the major constituents which
most be accounted for in that
particular utterance
E.g. the kitten drunk the milk.