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What is the characteristic of a child's language in Stage 5?
What is the characteristic of a child's language in Stage 5?
At what age does a child achieve adult-like fluency in their first language?
At what age does a child achieve adult-like fluency in their first language?
What is a significant development in a child's language in Stage 6?
What is a significant development in a child's language in Stage 6?
What is the characteristic of a child's language in Stage 8?
What is the characteristic of a child's language in Stage 8?
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What is the main difference between a child's language in Stage 5 and Stage 6?
What is the main difference between a child's language in Stage 5 and Stage 6?
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At what stage does a child's language become more adult-like in terms of fluency?
At what stage does a child's language become more adult-like in terms of fluency?
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What does metalinguistic awareness involve?
What does metalinguistic awareness involve?
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What is a characteristic of a child's language environment in Stage 5?
What is a characteristic of a child's language environment in Stage 5?
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What is a characteristic of a child's language development in Stage 3?
What is a characteristic of a child's language development in Stage 3?
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What is the primary purpose of crying in infants?
What is the primary purpose of crying in infants?
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At what age do children typically experience a vocabulary explosion?
At what age do children typically experience a vocabulary explosion?
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What stage of language development is crying associated with?
What stage of language development is crying associated with?
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What is an example of an overgeneralization in language development?
What is an example of an overgeneralization in language development?
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What is an indication of language ability in infants?
What is an indication of language ability in infants?
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How many words do children typically have in their vocabulary at the beginning of the 2nd year?
How many words do children typically have in their vocabulary at the beginning of the 2nd year?
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What is the primary function of language development in children?
What is the primary function of language development in children?
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What is a characteristic of a child's language development in Stage 4?
What is a characteristic of a child's language development in Stage 4?
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What is the significance of crying in language development?
What is the significance of crying in language development?
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What is the primary characteristic of language development in Stage 1?
What is the primary characteristic of language development in Stage 1?
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What is the approximate age range for infants to start babbling and adding consonants to sounds?
What is the approximate age range for infants to start babbling and adding consonants to sounds?
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What is the significance of the developments in the first year of an infant's life?
What is the significance of the developments in the first year of an infant's life?
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Which of the following consonants is NOT typically produced during Stage 2?
Which of the following consonants is NOT typically produced during Stage 2?
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What is the primary function of cooing in language development?
What is the primary function of cooing in language development?
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Study Notes
Language Development in Children
- Crying is the first form of language in infants
- Stage 1 (0-2 months): Infants produce vowel-like sounds (e.g., "aaaaah", "ooooooh")
Co-Speech Gestures
- Stage 2 (3-6 months): Infants start babbling, adding consonants to sounds (e.g., "maaaaa", "baaaaa")
Understanding Communication
- By the end of the first year, infants develop a link between communication and sound-making signals
- This marks the onset of language development
One-Word Utterances
- Stage 3 (beginning of 2nd year): Infants start using one-word utterances (e.g., "ma", "ba", "da")
- At this stage, they have a limited vocabulary of around 5 words
Vocabulary Explosion
- Stage 4 (18 months): Infants experience a vocabulary explosion, learning words at a faster rate (20-50 words)
- They start using overgeneralizations (e.g., using "baba" to refer to all men)
Two-Word Utterances
- Stage 5 (just before end of 2nd year and beginning of 3rd year): Infants start using two-word utterances (e.g., "dad go", "mamy milk")
- They use telegraphic speech (abbreviated language) and overgeneralizations
- Their language is limited to their immediate environment
Complete Utterances
- Stage 6 (third year to beginning of 4th year): Infants start using complete utterances
- They develop conversational skills, wider here-and-now skills, and metalinguistic awareness (e.g., recognizing "bad words")
Mastery of L1
- Stage 7 (5-6 years): Children possess the basic syntactic, semantic, phonological, and phonetic systems of their first language (L1)
- They achieve adult-like fluency and mastery of L1 knowledge
- They possess more conversational skills and metalinguistic awareness
Advanced Conversational Skills
- Stage 8 (7-13 years): Children develop more complex, adult-like conversational skills
- They develop more advanced and complex grammar and knowledge of L1
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