CLA - stages and phonology recap

Which of these are pre-verbal stages?

• cooing

• holophrastic

• babbling

• two word

At what point is it argued children start to become aware of language?

• before birth

• at birth

• at 4 months old

• at one year old

At one year old, the child enters which stage?

(a)  

At what age does the telegraphic stage begin?

• 1 year

• 2 years

• 3 years

Which of these is an example of telegraphic speech?

• Mummy carry down

• I don't like it

• Are you hungry baby?

• James sit

Which language skill begins to develop first?

(a)  

Which sounds to children master first?

• dipthongs

• vowels

• consonants

Berko and Brown conducted the (a)   experiment.

Alan Cruttenden studied children's understanding of (a)   in the 1970s.

Children show a preference for a (a)   pattern.