CLD Stages

By the age of 5 children often have a vocabulary of

• 500 words

• 1000 words

• 2000 words

• 3000 words

Children all over the world go through similar stages in their language development - tick the boxes that apply when considering this statement

• This shows that children rely on imitation to learn language

• This shows that the environment is essential to language development

• This shows that there is an innate aspect of language development

• This supports Chomsky's ideas

In what year did Mehler find that babies as young as 4 days old could distinguish French from other languages?

What did Mehler suggest about the sound perception of babies?

• Babies have exceptional hearing

• Babies in the womb become tuned in to the language they hear around them

• Babies are born knowing how to speak their own language

• Babies in the womb can detect whether their language has subjects or not

Which of the following are true about the sound perception of babies?

• A baby prefers the sound of their mother's voice to other humans

• A baby prefers the sound of human voices to other sounds

• A baby has exceptional hearing abilities

• Once born, babies are more interested in the sounds of people speaking the language they heard in the womb

Which of these show the correct order of sounds babies make in the first year?

• Babbling, cooing, biological noises, laughing

• Biological noises, cooing, babbling, laughing

• Cooing, Biological noises, babbling, laughing

• Biological noises, cooing, laughing, babbling

What stage usually appears at 12-18 months?

What stage typically appears between 18 and 24 months?

What stage appears usually between 2 and 3 years?

What do we call the stage that usually comes after the age of 3?