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WorksheetsStages of Child Language Acquisition
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 18mins
True or False: Babies can comprehend much more than they can say
True
False
Who identified 4 categories babies first words fall into?
Bloom
Newson
Nelson
Nelson suggested that children's first words fall into 4 categories: Naming, Social, Action and
(a)
Put the pre-verbal stages of child's language acquisition into the correct order
Vegetative
Cooing
Babbling
Proto-words
The pre-verbal stages of child's language acquisition are (in order) (a) (b) (c) and (d)
In the exam, the CLA question you need to choose will be on (a) not (b)
Explain what happens to children's language as they get older (length of utterances, sentence functions, pronunciations of vowels and consonants, grammar)
What is the average age for a child to utter their first word?
6 months
12 months
15 months
18 months
Match the following phonological errors
Rabbit becomes wabbit
Reduplication
Choochoo, weewee
Addition
Pig becomes pi
Assimilation
Horse becomes horsi
Substitution
Doggie become goggie
Deletion
The phonological error whereby an entire unstressed syllable is removed eg banana to nana is called
(a)
The phonological error whereby groups of more than one consonant are reduced into smaller units eg frog to fog, is know as
(a)
True or False: TV can 'teach' babies to talk
True
False
True or False: Children can communicate using just 2 words
True
False
A child says "daddy go work" as their father leaves. What stage of development might we suggest the child is at? (a)
A child says "milk" as they are given a bottle. What stage of development might we suggest the child is at? (a)
