first language acquisition stages
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Language Acquisition
First language acquisition
Second language acquisition
Requirements: Interaction with other language-
users to bring the ‘lang. faculty’ into operation
Physically capable of sending and receiving sound signals in a language
Individual’s potential for acquiring any lauguage
Competence (Chomsky) Irrelevant to cultural differences, nor
race differences A spontaneous process From babyhood
1. Pre-language stages
2. The one-word or holophrastic stage
3. The two-word stage
4.Multiple-word stage
3 to 10 months 12 to 18
months
18 to 20 months
2 to 3 years
Cooing: 3months old the first recognizable sounds with velar consonants such as [k] [g] as well as high vowels such as [i] [u] Babbling: 6months old fricatives, nasals, syllabletype sounds 9months old recognizable intonation patterns, combination 10-11months old use vocalizations to express emotions and
emphasis video cooing and
babling
Characterized by speech in which single terms are uttered for everyday objects
Already extending their use Most verbs and nouns, infrequent
function words Tend to informative words
Mama
Mama is coming !
I saw Mama’s socks !
Milk
I want milk ….
Video Baby arguing
Begin around 18 to 20 months, As child’s vocabulary moves beyond 50
distinct words Combinations: Mama book. Toy mine. Baby chair. Sock pretty
A)possession: This is Mama’s book.
b)request : Mama gave me the book.
(c)statement: Mama is reading the book.
Between 2-3 years old Producing a large number of utterances Telegraphic speech: strings of lexical
morphemes in phrases Develop some sentence-building
capacity Can order some forms correctly A number of grammatical inflections
begin to appear
Videos Star wars.. Charlie bit my finger..
Cathy build house. Cat stand up table. Daddy like this
book. Chair all broken. I good boy today.
What that? What her name? No sit there. Mummy no play. Me put it back. Baby no eat apple