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What is characteristic of a child's language during Stage 5?
What is a child's language limited to during Stage 5?
At what stage do children achieve rather adult-like fluency and good mastery of L1 knowledge?
What is characteristic of a child's language during Stage 6?
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When do children develop more complex, adult-like conversational skills?
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What is characteristic of a child's language during Stage 7?
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What is characteristic of a child's language during Stage 8?
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What is an example of metalinguistic awareness in a child's language?
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At what stage do children typically use two-word utterances?
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What is characteristic of children's language during Stage 5 and Stage 6?
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Study Notes
Stages of Language Development in Children
Stage 1: 0-2 months
- Crying is an indication of language ability and the first form of language
- Infants produce vowel-like sounds, such as "aaaaah" and "oooooh", mainly using "a" and "o" sounds
Stage 2: 3-6 months
- Infants start babbling, adding consonants to sounds, producing sounds like "maaaaa", "baaaaa", and "غاااااااا"
- Mainly uses "a", "o", and "e" vowels and "b", "m", "d", and "t" consonants
Stage 3: Beginning of 2nd year
- Infants develop a link between communication and sound-making signals, marking the onset of language
- One-word utterances emerge, such as "Ma" (ma), "ba" (ba), "da" (da), and "bab bab bab"
- Limited vocabulary of around 5 words
Stage 4: 18 months
- Vocabulary explosion/spurt, with a rapid increase in learning words (20-50 words)
- Overgeneralizations occur, such as using "baba" to refer to all men, "mama" to refer to all women, and "dada" to refer to all children
Stage 5: Just before end of 2nd year and beginning of 3rd year
- Two-word utterances emerge, such as "dad go", "mamy milk", and "go sleep"
- Telegraphic speech (abbreviated language) is used
- Overgeneralizations continue, such as using "mama halawa" and "sakr bab"
- Limited inflections and a focus on the here-and-now environment
Stage 6: Third year to beginning of 4th year
- Complete utterances are used
- Some conversational skills are developed
- Wider here-and-now skills are acquired
- Metalinguistic awareness emerges, such as recognizing "bad words"
- More vocabulary items are learned
Stage 7: 5-6 years
- The child possesses the basic syntactic, semantic, phonological, and phonetic systems of L1
- Adult-like fluency and good mastery of L1 knowledge are achieved
- Conversational skills similar to those of adults are developed
- Deeper and wider metalinguistic awareness is achieved
Stage 8: 7-13 years
- Development of more complex, adult-like conversational skills
- Advanced and complex grammar and knowledge of L1 are acquired
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Explore the different stages of language development in children, from crying to complex communication. Learn about the milestones and indicators of language ability in young children.
