How children learn language

What is the age when children begin to speak in word combinations?

• 1 year
• 2 years
• 3 years

What are the two different psychological processes into which language is divided?

• Speech production and speech comprehension
• Information processing and symbol manipulation
• Knowledge construction and speech production

What are the early stages of speech?

• Preproduction, Early Production, Speech Emergence, Intermediate Fluency, and Advanced Fluency
• Naming, holophrastic, telegraphic and morphemic.
• Reflective Observation, Abstract Conceptualization, assimilating information and Active Experimentation

Strategy to acquire language which attempts to learn word reffered to aspects of the immediate environment of the child

• Referential
• Expressive

When can it be said that a child learned his first words?

• When they are able to utter a recognizable speech form and when this is done in conjunction with some object or event in the environment.
• When they are able to pronounce a word and repeat it several times.
• When they can pronounce a word and use it in all situations and to refer to all people

The interests of the child and their desires to communicate will be learned faster than those that lack interest.

• The ease of observability of referent.
• Meaningfulness of the referent.
• Distinctiveness of the sound signal that indicates the referent.

The greater the sound distinction is involved the easier it will be for a morpheme signal to be learned.

• The ease of observability of referent.

• Meaningfulness of the referent.

• Distinctiveness of the sound signal that indicates the referent.

Strategy to acquire language which is emphasized on social interaction

• Referential
• Expressive

The more easily a child can see or hear or otherwise the referent the more likely are such referents to be stored in memory.

• The ease of observability of referent.

• Meaningfulness of the referent.

• Distinctiveness of the sound signal that indicates the referent.

This phase of speech is a function in which children use a single word to express complex ideas or a variety of semantic functions.

• Holophrastic
• Naming
• Telegraphic
• Morphemic