First Language Acquisition

Characteristically simplified speech style adapted by someone who spends a lot of time interacting with young children.

• Persuasive speech

• Caregiver speech

• Demonstrative speech

• Informative speech

There are ___________ stages of language acquisition process.

• 5

• 6

• 4

• 7

Enrique is a seventh month old infant. He is now making vocalizations that combine consonants and vowels. He is communicating using which of the following?

• cooing

• phonemes

• linguistic speech

• babbling

Variegated babbling stands for______.

• Same syllable in each successive cycle

• Different syllables in successive cycles

The one-word stage is also known as the

• Babbling

• Holophrastic

• Speech emergence

• Telegraphic

The stage where children begin stringing more than two words together, perhaps three or four to form a simple sentence is ______

• Prelinguistic stage

• Two-word stage

• Telegraphic speech stage

• One-word stage

What is the meaning of overextension?

• A. meaning based on similarities of shape, sound, size, color etc. 

• B. Meaning based on function and sound produced 

• C. Meaning based on applying the same rule on every word and phrase

How many stages are there when forming questions?

• A. 3 stages

   1st stage: wh- form is added in the beginning.

  2nd stage: wh- form is added in the beginning but in more complex form.

  3rd stage: wh- from with additional auxiliary verbs.

• B. 3 stages

  1st stage: wh- form is added in the beginning. 

  2nd stage: wh- form with negative form.

  3rd stage: wh- form with auxiliary verbs but not grammatically correct.

Child language is developed based on…

• Copying and constructing

• Constructing new word based on imitation but not correction

• Overgeneralization and overextension

Correct the sentence below

Mother: You have to eat vegetables

Child: No, I don’t hate vegetables

Mother: No, say “…………………..”

Child: I don’t hate vegetables

(a)