Stages in First
Language Acquisition
Language Acquisition
Stage in which infants make vegetative sounds from birth and responding to external sounds through smile and eye contact.
Pre-talking/Cooing Stage
Refers to all of the genes and hereditary factors that influence who we are.
Nature
Hypothesis that says that there is a period of growth in which full native competence is possible when acquiring a language.
The Critical Period Hypothesis
Language develops in a typical manner but on a delayed timeline.
Language Delay
Stage in which the infant can produce sounds such as consonant-vowel combinations.
Babbling Stage
Ability to understand spoken or written language.
Language comprehension
The learner's current version of the language they are learning.
Interlanguage
Language develops in an atypical manner often resulting in splinter skills.
Language Disorder
An early word-like utterance produced by an infant before it has acquired true language.
Proto-words
With their kids, mothers switch into a special communicative mode known as...
Motherese
The process of an error becoming a habit so that a student often makes it and finds it difficult to change.
Fossilization
Fronting, Stopping, Gliding and Assimilation are types of...
Phonological Processes
Characterized by short simple sentences made up primarily of content words.
Telegraphic Speech
Hypothesis which states that a person's perception of the world is determined and influenced by the language they speak.
Saphir-Wolf Hypothesis
Controversial argument from linguistics that children are not exposed to rich enough data within their linguistic environments to acquire every feature of their language.
Poverty of Stimulus
Education using a set of materials created as a concrete physical representation of the concepts and skills that children are naturally motivated to learn in their normal course of development.
Montessori Education
Name for a specific stage of language acquisition in which children apply a grammatical rule too widely.
Overgeneralization
Conceptualization, Formulation, Articulation and Self-monitoring are stages of the...
Language Production
A linguistic sign that bears no obvious resenblance to the thing or concept signified.
Arbitrary Sign
The construction of a computarized database for studying child language acquisition.
The CHILDES Database