Stages of Child Language Acquisition

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

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)  

• holophrastic/one word
• 2 word
• Telegraphic
• post-telegraphic

In the exam, the CLA question you need to choose will be on ​ (a)   not​ (b)  

• spoken language
• child's literacy

Explain what happens to children's language as they get older (length of utterances, sentence functions, pronunciations of vowels and consonants, grammar)

Answer explanation

As children get older, their utterances get longer.

They are able to pronounce harder consonants.

They move from just being able to pronounce vowels to pronouncing consonants.

They begin by just making statements and progress to asking questions.

As they get older they learn the rules of politeness.

It takes longer for children to learn correct plurals and the rules of 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

• Addition

• Choochoo, weewee

• Assimilation

• Rabbit becomes wabbit

• Substitution

• Doggie become goggie

• Deletion

• Horse becomes horsi

• Reduplication

• Pig becomes pi

The phonological error whereby an entire unstressed syllable is removed eg banana to nana is called