Ages and Stages

Question 1

Pre-Linguistic Stage

Answer 1

Vegetative, Cooing, Babbling, Protoword

Question 2

Holophrastic Stage

Answer 2

12-18 Months, whole phrase, rich interpretation needed

Question 3

Two-Word Stage

Answer 3

18-24 Months - Open and Pivot words

Question 4

Telegraphic Stage

Answer 4

24-36 Months - Learn tenses, questions, negation, determiners

Question 5

Post-Telegraphic Stage

Answer 5

36+ Months - Learn bound morphemes

Question 6

Morphemes

Answer 6

Smallest unit of meaning
Free - Can be on its own
Bound - Need to attach to a free morpheme

Question 7

Tenses

Answer 7

Simple present, present progressive, past

Question 8

Child-Directed Language

Answer 8

Used to get attention, acts as a LASS supporting the LAD - Bruner

Question 9

Features of Child-Directed Language

Answer 9

Child-Directed Topics, concrete nouns, dynamic verbs, repetition, interrogatives, expansion, re-casting, heightened prosodic features

Question 10

Apply to Question

Answer 10

Evidence of stage - Explain via Chomsky’s Nativism, innate, mostly same order

Question 11

Exceptions to the Stages

Answer 11

Genie - Never learned grammar, isolate
Tsimane people - No Child-Directed Language
Jim - Didn’t learn until school, deaf + mute parents