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Language Development

Language Development. Four Stages of Language Development. 1.) Pre-Speech Stage. Crying and cooing Highly responsive to pitch, intensity, and sound of language Respond more enthusiastically to speech than other sounds Microphone-nipple experiment. 2.) Babbling Stage. Recognize their name

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Language Development

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  1. Language Development

  2. Four Stages of Language Development

  3. 1.) Pre-Speech Stage • Crying and cooing • Highly responsive to pitch, intensity, and sound of language • Respond more enthusiastically to speech than other sounds • Microphone-nipple experiment

  4. 2.) Babbling Stage • Recognize their name • Recognize other words spoken w/ emotion (“Mommy” & “Daddy”) • Know many key consonant & vowel sounds • Make ba-ba & goo-goo sounds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JmA2ClUvUY

  5. Interesting Fact • At 6 months – If an infant hears either “mommy” or “daddy,” they will look toward the appropriate person.

  6. 3.) One-Word (Holophrastic) Stage • Start to name familiar things • “Mama”, “doggie”, “car” • Develop symbolic gestures to… • Refer to objects • Request things • Describe objects • Reply to questions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlqq4-fRIdY

  7. 4.) Combining Words (Telegraphic) Stage • Two- or three-word combos • Omit articles (telegraphic) • Use two-word sentences to… • Locate things • Make demands • Describe events • Show possession • Ask questions • Language explosion

  8. Language Explosion! • Once an infant’s vocabulary reaches ~50 words, it suddenly begins to build rapidly at a rate of 50 to 100+ words per month • Mostly nouns • Also called the “Naming Explosion” Sue 

  9. Talk to Your Babies! • The rate of children’s vocabulary development is influenced by the amount of talk they are exposed to. • The more speech that is addressed to a toddler, the more rapidly the toddler will learn new words!

  10. Word Comprehension • Fast Mapping is the process of rapidly learning a new word simply from the contrastive use of a familiar word and an unfamiliar word • The children’s ability to connect new words to familiar words so rapidly that they cannot be considering all possible meaning for the new word

  11. Example of Fast Mapping • In a preschool classroom, an experimenter drew a child’s attention to two blocks – asking the child to “get the celadon block not the blue one” • From this simple contrast, the child inferred that the name of the color of the requested object was “celadon” • After a single exposure to this novel word, about half the children showed some knowledge of it a week later by correctly picking the celadon color child from a bunch of paint chips

  12. Give Fast-Mapping a try… Answer the following questions on you own.

  13. This is a snurk. It walks on its flaxes. How many flaxes does a snurk have? Snurks have twice as many flaxes as ampolinks. Where are the amopolinks? Snurks are covered with garslim. Garslim is like __________? Like dogs, snurks can wag their pangeers. Where is the pangeer? Do you think snurks can bispooche? Why or why not?

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