Narrative Account First Language Acquisition Melanie Carvajal Parra

Narrative Account. First Language Acquisition Melanie Carvajal Parra

Hello! Amanda 4 years old 2

1. Sources of exposure

Age (years) 0 - 1 1 -2 3 -4 Mother 83% 65% 40% Father, sister and other family members 15% 20% Tv series and music 2% 10% 0 0 30% School 4

1 I. Stages Of acquisition

Babbling Amanda, started to babbling from 5 to six months, saying things such as : “Mamamama” “bababa” “papapa” 6

One-word Stage Amanda in this stage used to refer to mainly objects that were familiar for her in order to ask for them. These objects were primarily toys or food. 7

“ ❏ “Caque , caque! (pointing to a plate with meat on it) - Amanda, 18 to 24 months 8

Under and overextension Amanda never showed signs of underextension in her speech, However, she showed plenty of utterances including overextended concepts 9

“ ❏“Caca” - Amanda 18 -24 months 10

The two-word Stage Amanda reached this stage quite quickly, but it didn’t last long given that after this stage, her grammar started to develop steadily starting to produce 3 and even 4 words in some isolated cases. 11

“ ❏“Hemana, caque” ❏“Mamá, caque” - 24 months ❏“Papá, quiero caque” - 24 to 30 months 12

Acquired v/s Learned 13

“ ❏“Me quiero salgar de la piscina” ❏“Tengo mal ponidos los zapatos” ❏“La hermana se comido las papas fritas” - Amanda 3, years old 14

“ ❏“Se dice “la embarrada”” ❏“Se dice “pucha”” ❏“Las cosas se piden por favor” - Amanda, 4 years old 15

“ ❏“La sopita” ❏“El huasito sigue a la niña” ❏“La niña usa vestido, zapatitos, pañuelo” - Amanda, 4 years old 16

“ ❏“El juguete que vimos con la mamá cuando fui al mid mall me gustó mucho” - Amanda, 4 years old 17

“ ❏“Los fideos estaban fantásticos” ❏“Era asombroso!” - Amanda , 4 years old 18

numbers, colors, Learned planets, days of the week, the seasons of Pronunciation of /l/ the year, months, and /r/ sounds is professions, starting to develop vegetables, fruits, raw A large amount of materials, furniture, lexical items related to machines, buildings, places, clothing, adjectives, adverbs of manner, adverbs of time. 19

physical, emotional and social environment 20

Physical Amanda has acquired a large amount of action verbs, for example, thanks to her physical development in games and songs played with her family members in the first stages 21

Emotional She has an overprotective mother, which caused in the first stages of her linguistic development to be limited. 22

Social environment When Amanda entered preschool, her linguistic development started to grow enormously and steadily. 23

Video time! 24

Amanda Nowadays She is a more or less proficient user of Spanish in the skills of listening and speaking but she has not developed reading and writing yet. 25

Thanks for your attention! Any questions? 26