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The Development of Language Functions in The Early Stages of Language Acquisition

The document discusses the stages of language acquisition in early development from cooing and babbling as infants to using single words and forming two-word sentences as toddlers progresses to longer multi-word utterances with communicative intent by 30 months of age.

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The Development of Language Functions in The Early Stages of Language Acquisition

The document discusses the stages of language acquisition in early development from cooing and babbling as infants to using single words and forming two-word sentences as toddlers progresses to longer multi-word utterances with communicative intent by 30 months of age.

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“The development of language functions in the early stages of language acquisition.

1. Pre-talking stage / Cooing (0-6 months):


Pre-talking stage or cooing is the vowel-like sound responding to human sounds more
definitely, turns head, eyes seem to search for the one who spoke, occasionally some
chuckling sounds.

Example: Frances (at the age of atleast 3 months) demonstrating the cooing stage of
language acquisition. He is producing vowel-like sounds (especially, the back vowels [u]
and [o]) in the sounds of “oh”, “uh”, and “ah”, typical of "cooing".

2. Babbling stage (6-8 months):


Babbling is the sounds which infants produce as consonant-vowel combinations. It’s
when theyre trying to somehow communicate with the speaker.

For example: saying mama, dada, and more. This is due to the infants environment and
people surrounding him to encourage him to speak.

3. Holophrastic stage (9-18 months):


Derived from holo “complete” or “undivided” plus phrase “phrase” or “sentence”,
therefore holophrastic is the children’s first single word which represent to a sentence.
Children using one word to express particular emotional state.

For example: Frances is now able to speak daddy singularly, with nothing else to add.
As if commanding, or rendering the word as a full sentence.

4. The two-word stage (18-24 months):


Two-word stage is the mini sentences with simple semantic relations. Children begin to
form actual two-word sentences, with the relations between the two words showing
definite syntactic and semantic relations and the intonation contour of the two words
extending over the whole utterance rather than being separated by a pause between the
two words.

5. Telegraphic stage (24-30 months):


Telegraphic is merely a descriptive term because the child does not deliberately leave
out the noncontent words, as does an adult sending a telegram. When the child begins
to produce utterances that ere longer than two words, these utterances appear to be
“sentence-like”; they have hierarchical, constituent structures similar to the syntactic
structures found in the sentences produced by adult grammar.

6. Later multiword stage (30+months)


At this stage is fastest increase in vocabulary with many new additions everyday; no
babbling at all; utterances have communicative intent. There is a great variation among
children, seems to understand everything said within hearing and directed to them.

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