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Change in Language
Change in Language
Linguistic
Babbling Stage
- 6-12 months
Cooing - primarily
- 2 – 5 months syllable like
- primarily sounds (ba-ba-ba;
Crying
vowel like sounds ma-ma-ma)
- Birth-2 months [i], [u]
-any
involuntary vocal
production
Linguistic Stages
ONE-Word Stage TWO-Word Stage Telegraphic Speech
Children already learn a great deal of vocabulary and grammatical rules by the age of 2 ½
years. After this phase they try to incorporate different morphology in their sentences.
• Begins with –ing ( brother reading, mommy watching, etc.)
• That is followed by the use of regular plural -s (boy-boys, dog-dogs) they overgeneralize
it to the nouns like (foot-foots vs feet vs feets; tooth-tooths vs teeth vs teeths)
• Almost at the same time they start using various forms of ‘be’ verb (am, is, are, was, etc.)
• They use regular past forms (walk-walked; move-moved; play-played)
• The overgeneralize the past making procedure and use it with any verb they come across
to denote past (go-goed vs went vs wented, walk-walked vs walkeded, come-comed vs
came vs camed, do-doed vs did)
Parents do not necessarily be alarmed or vexed to hear the above expressions. They indicate
that their child is trying to use different structures and try to make sense.
Overgeneralization example…
Syntax is the
arrangement of words
and phrases to create
well-formed sentences in
a language. (Proper
placement of nouns,
verbs, etc.)
Forming Questions
Second Phase (22 months-3 months): Still rely on intonation but are able to form complex form, like
See my toy? What book name? You want eat?
Third Phase (24 months -40 months): Able to use auxiliary verbs; know that verbs should precede
nouns; may still feel comfortable to use –wh words; still have some traces of overgeneralization, like
Can I see that? Why she can’t eat an apple? How that opened?
Will you help me?
Forming Negatives
• What are children doing along their process of first language acquisition?
• From your own experiences as learners and users of your first language, what experiences can
you recall of these processes, both at home and at school?
• Why is knowledge in this area necessary for future language teachers? (English Language Arts,
English as a Foreign Language, English as a Second Language)?
• How does this knowledge prepare you to read about and understand Second Language
Acquisition Theories?
How Children Learn Language
http://youtu.be/ir7arILiqxg
Steven Pinker is a
Psychologist
and Linguist at Harvard.