5 years

Question 0

How has the child developed in semantics by 5 years?

Answer 0

Uses:
Conjunctions: “when”, “so”, “what” and “if”

Understands:
Concepts of “between”, “above”, “below”, “top” and “bottom”

Emerging:
Knowledge of numbers and counting

Asks for meanings of words

Question 1

How has the child developed in pragmatics by 5 years?

Answer 1

Uses indirect requests

More elaborate discussions of emotions and feelings

Correctly uses dietic terms including “this”, “that”, “here” and “there”

Ability to address specific requests for clarification increases

Narratives are chains of unfocused sequences of events:
Have:
Some plot
No central character
No high point or resolution

Question 2

How has the child developed in syntax by 5 years?

Answer 2

MLU: 4.6 to 4.7

Produces 4 to 8 word sentences

Uses:
“Could” and “ would”
Past tense auxiliaries
“Will” for future tense

Consistent:
Irregular plurals
“Ours”, “they” and “their”
Reflexive pronouns

Acquired:
Basic sentence forms
Later developing morphemes (including “be”, regular past tense and third person “s”)

Emerging:
Passive
Comparative
“If” and “so” appear in sentences
Emerging later developing complex sentences include:
Relative clauses (my friend who lives in London came)
Infinitive clauses (I want him to go)
Gerund clauses (swimming is fun)
Wh-infinitive clauses (I don’t know where to put it)

Makes frequent agreement errors between noun-verb and adjective-noun (they wants to go)

Question 3

How has the child developed in phonology by 5 years?

Answer 3

Speech is 100% intelligible

Knowledge of letter names and sounds emerges

Few omissions or substitutions of consonants

Persisting errors may include:
s, sh, r, l, v, z, zh, ch, j and th

More errors present in difficult blends

Emerging:
Ability to segment words into syllables