Stages of child language acquisition

Stages of child language acquisition




1) The first stage of the child language acquisition is babbling, this occurs at 6-8 months and involves producing a full range of possible speech sounds, even when these sounds don't appear in the child's living environment.




2) The second stage is the holophrastic 'one word' stage, it occurs at 12-14 months and you don't just get any word. You get words such as 'bad', 'go', 'fast' 'drink' but you will never get words such as 'and', 'in', 'the'.




3) The third stage is the two word stage this occurs at 18-24 months, there are still no closed class words, the closed classes in English include pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, and prepositions. However, there are some pronouns used such as 'me' and 'you'.




4) The fourth stage is known as the telegraph stage this occurs between 24 and 30 months. There is no 3 word stage in language, there is basically full sentences but without closed class words. There are some affixes used.




5) The fifth stage is the later multiword stage this occurs after 30 months and in this stage grammatical or functional structures emerge.


-  Babbling
-  Holophrastic
-  Two word
-  Telegraph
-  Later multiword