BUZZ QUESTION:
What is language development and how does it change over time?
Language development is the process of obtaining and developing speech. Beginning with infants, language development is explored through the stages of speech acquisition. Although most language capabilities are developed by five years of age, there are exceptions and abnormalities. Vocabulary is always changing and improving through a child's life.
What is language development and how does it change over time?
Language development is the process of obtaining and developing speech. Beginning with infants, language development is explored through the stages of speech acquisition. Although most language capabilities are developed by five years of age, there are exceptions and abnormalities. Vocabulary is always changing and improving through a child's life.
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Language Development TheoriesNativism
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SPeech AcquisitionLanguage acquisition is a process that begins when babies begin to explore how to create sounds on their own. This occurs in five stages that generally happen at a specific age.
1. Cooing/Babblling- using phoneme sounds and consonants (6 mo-1 yrs) 2. Single-word/two word- Using words from native language (1-1.5yrs) 3. Telegraphic Speech- multi-word combinations (2 yrs) 4. Normal speech-full sentences (5 yrs) |
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Patricia Kuhl. Patricia Kuhl speaks about the language development of infants. She has studied the "statistics" that infants seem to take in their heads while learning language. She believes that there is a certain age where children begin to recognize the sounds of their native language. She also speaks of the way that bilingual babies learn language.
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