Friday, 16 September 2016

Stages of Child Language Aquisition

Stage 1: Cooing Stage (0-4 months)


  • Beginning to make spontaneous cooing sounds
  • Resembling vowel sounds
  • They are vowel-like sounds rather than consonant because it is harder to coordinate your lips and breath
Stage 2: Babbling Stage (4-10 months)

  • Repeated consonant and vowel sounds
  • It becomes more complex around 8-10 months
  • Echolalic babbling - reflects intonation and rhythm
Stage 3: Holophrastic Stage (1 year)

  • Word-like units
  • Idiomorphs - invented words
  • Producing more conventional words that resemble adult pronunciation and meaning
Stage 4: Two-word Stage (2 years)

  • Using two words

Stage 5: Telegraphic Stage

  • Only include content words
  • No conjunctions, article, prepositions or word endings
Stage 6: Beginning Oral Fluency

  • Moderately fluent

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