CLA: grammatical development

Question 1

One - word / Holophrastic stage

Answer 1

• (Holophrases= Single words which convey more complex functions)
• 12 - 18 months
• The child speaks in one - word utterances.
• However groups of single words may be used as one unit.
• In many situations the words simply serve a naming function.

Question 2

Two - word stage

Answer 2

• 18 months
• Two - word utterances begin to appear
• Usually are grammatically correct
• The utterances focus on key words
• Grammatical function words are commonly omitted

Question 3

Telegraphic stage

Answer 3

• 2 years
• 3 and 4 word utterances begin to be produced
• Some will be grammatically complete
• Other utterances will have grammatical elements omitted.
• They include key elements and and omit: determiners, auxiliary verbs and prepositions
• A wider range of structures will be used like questions, commands and simple statements.

Question 4

Post - telegraphic stage

Answer 4

Children in their stage are capable of producing utterances that are longer than 4 words. There is ab explosion of development around the beginning of the stage as they develop their lexis. They are able to create sentences with multiple clauses and can use grammar in more complex ways to sustain conversation.

Question 5

Theorist: Francois Grosjean

Answer 5

Contrary to common belief, children born into bilingual households will achieve language development milestones within normal parameters and will not confuse the two languages, but learn then separately.

Question 6

1. ’ mummy ‘
2. ’ Draw Birdie ‘
3. ’ allgone ‘
4. ’ I went to the shops last weekend, it was lots of fun ‘
5. ’ Lucy likes juice ‘

Answer 6

1. one-word stage
2. two-word stage
3. one-word stage
4. Post telegraphic stage
5. Telegraphic stage

Question 7

Syntactic Development

Answer 7

The development of a Child’s ability to make grammatical sense.

Question 8

Stage 1 of questioning

Answer 8

Two-word stage, the questions rely on rising intonation only.

Question 9

Stage 2 of questioning

Answer 9

Second year, question words are acquired. 
1. What
2. Where 
Then... 
3. Why 
4. Who 
5. How

Question 10

Stage 3 of questioning

Answer 10

Third Year, begin to use auxiliary verbs and inversion

Question 11

Theorist: Ursula Bellugi

Answer 11

Forming negatives

Question 12

Stage 1 of Negation

Answer 12

‘no’ is added to the end or the beginning. This is the only way of forming negatives.

Question 13

Stage 2 of Negation

Answer 13

More variety with ‘can’t’ and ‘don’t’ being used but without variation of tense. ‘no’ is repeated but appears mid utterance in what will be the appropriate position for ‘not’