Language Development Four Stages of Language Development Stage

Language Development

Four Stages of Language Development Stage Name Years of Life 1. ) Pre-Speech Stage 0 – 6 months 2. ) Babbling Stage 6 – 8 months 3. ) One-Word (Holophrastic) Stage 4. ) Combining Words (Telegraphic) Stage 9 – 18 months 18 – 36 months

1. ) Pre-Speech Stage • Crying and cooing • Highly responsive to pitch, intensity, and sound of language • Respond more enthusiastically to speech than other sounds • Microphone-nipple experiment

2. ) Babbling Stage • Recognize their name • Recognize other words spoken w/ emotion (“Mommy” & “Daddy”) • Know many key consonant & vowel sounds • Make ba-ba & googoo sounds http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=_Jm. A 2 Cl. Uv. UY

Interesting Fact • At 6 months – If an infant hears either “mommy” or “daddy, ” they will look toward the appropriate person.

3. ) One-Word (Holophrastic) Stage • Start to name familiar things – “Mama”, “doggie”, “car” • Develop symbolic gestures to… – Refer to objects – Request things – Describe objects – Reply to questions http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=dlqq 4 -f. RId. Y

4. ) Combining Words (Telegraphic) Stage • Two- or three-word combos • Omit articles (telegraphic) • Use two-word sentences to… – Locate things – Make demands – Describe events – Show possession – Ask questions • Language explosion

Language Explosion! • Once an infant’s vocabulary reaches ~50 words, it suddenly begins to build rapidly at a rate of 50 to 100+ words per month • Mostly nouns • Also called the “Naming Explosion” e Su

Talk to Your Babies! • The rate of children’s vocabulary development is influenced by the amount of talk they are exposed to. • The more speech that is addressed to a toddler, the more rapidly the toddler will learn new words!

Word Comprehension • Fast Mapping is the process of rapidly learning a new word simply from the contrastive use of a familiar word an unfamiliar word • The children’s ability to connect new words to familiar words so rapidly that they cannot be considering all possible meaning for the new word

Example of Fast Mapping • In a preschool classroom, an experimenter drew a child’s attention to two blocks – asking the child to “get the celadon block not the blue one” • From this simple contrast, the child inferred that the name of the color of the requested object was “celadon” • After a single exposure to this novel word, about half the children showed some knowledge of it a week later by correctly picking the celadon color chip from a bunch of paint chips

Give Fast-Mapping a try… Answer the following questions on your own.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. This is a snurk. It walks on its flaxes. How many flaxes does a snurk have? Snurks have twice as many flaxes as ampolinks. Where are the ampolinks? Snurks are covered with garslim. Garslim is like _____? Like dogs, snurks can wag their pangeers. Where is the pangeer? Do you think snurks can bispooche? Why or why not?