First Language Acquisition - Developmental Stages

Cooing and crying are characteristics of...

• Small babies

• 1 year-old children

• 18 months-old children

• 2 years-old children

Over exaggerating while talking to children is an example of...

• Imitation

• Parenteese

• Babbling

What's an example of babbling?

• mmm

• crying sounds

• babababa

Language acquisition is...

• the process of learning a new language

• the process of learning how to speak

• the process learning how to pronounce words

• All of them

What order do babies acquire language in?

• cooing, babbling, sentences, words, phrases

• cooing, babbling, words, phrases, sentences

• sentences, words, phrases, cooing, babbling

• cooing, phrases, words, babbling, sentences

True or False: Babies learn to talk by imitating sounds that they hear

• True

• False

True or False: Every person reaches speech milestones at the same time (like, first word at 12 months)

• True

• False

True or False: If a baby is born in the US and then moves to China, they will automatically be better at learning English than someone born in China?

• True

• False

True or false: Babies are capable of learning any language (it doesn't matter where they are from)

• True

• False

True or False: Parents/caregivers talking in parentese to their babies happens in many cultures.

• True

• False