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Language Acquisition Mind Map

1. The document discusses the stages of language acquisition in children from babbling to first words to telegraphic speech. 2. It covers the development of phonology, semantics, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics in children from 6 months to 3 years old. 3. The stages of question and negative formation are described showing progressions from simply adding question words or negating verbs to using more complex auxiliary forms.

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Language Acquisition Mind Map

1. The document discusses the stages of language acquisition in children from babbling to first words to telegraphic speech. 2. It covers the development of phonology, semantics, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics in children from 6 months to 3 years old. 3. The stages of question and negative formation are described showing progressions from simply adding question words or negating verbs to using more complex auxiliary forms.

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Innateness
1) What? recast
hypothesis
14)
reinforcement/ 15) Analogy
WEEK 10 - LANGUAGE ACQUISITION correction

Language Capacity of
Children
Role of Adult Input
Acquisition of
language
grammars
Stages

Phonology 8) Semantic Morphology 11) Syntax Pragmatics


Stage 1: Cooing – 2) 5months

First acquisition – 6) children


Stage 2: 3) Babbling 6-12 Holophrastic
first acquire the small set of
months sounds common to stage overgeneralisation
all languages regardless of 13)
the ambient language(s) and Describe
in later stages
Stage 3: First words – 12-18 the 3
acquire less common sounds Syntactic
Overextension 10) Example: problems
months rules
The use of
1st year – sound of possessive
the language;
2nd year – 7) how inflections Forming questions
One-word stage or Two-word sounds are (Mommy’s
4) Holophrastic
stage used dress)
Speech Syntactic Forming negatives - difficulties with
bootstrapping implicatures.
-lack pragmatic
Mispronunciation awareness in the
Stage 4: Telegraphic Speech – 2-3 governed by rules Competence is way they
sometimes use
years better than articles
production - do not provide
enough
12) Describe information on
9) learning of word
the 3 stages the pronouns that
meaning based on they use

syntax

Stage 1 : Simply add WH- form (Where , Who) to the Stage 1 : Stage 1
beginning of an Simply putting No and Not at the beginning of verbs and
nouns.
expression with the rise of intonation at the end. e.g. No sit here. Not a teddy bear.
▪ e.g. Where kitty? Stage 2 : Don’t and Can’t appear with No and Not
Stage 2 : Similar to Stage 1 bit with more complex expression e.g. He no like you. You can’t play.
are formed. Stage 3
Stage 3 : Stage 3 ❖ Incorporation of other auxiliary forms: didn’t and won’t.
❖ The movement of the use of auxiliary becomes evident. ❖ Typical Stage 1 form disappears.
▪ e.g. I can have… Can I have… ❖ Start acquiring the negative for isn’t.
❖ What and Why are being used now.
❖ What and Why are being used now.

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