developments

What are the four developments?

• holopphrastic

• Two word

• Telegraphic

• Post-telegraphic

Holophrastic stage age

• 12-18 months

Two word stage age

• 18-24 months

Telegraphic stage age

• 24-26 months

Post-telegraphic stage age

• 36+ months

Holophrastic stage (12-18 ) meaning

• one word utterances

Two word stage (18-24) meaning

• two word utterances

Telegraphic (24-36) meaning

• three word utterances

• Most words combined

Post-telegraphic (36+) Meaning

• grammatically complex combos

Holophrastic stage signs

• Includes variations in melody, rhythm and tone.

• Caregivers start to pick up on the intentions of the language.

• Protowords (words that need context, only the caregiver and child know) develop.

• Accent, pitch and tone develop.

• Can point to different parts of the body and name them.

• Will look for things when asked.

• Make gestures (more, again)

• Pronunciation is idiosyncratic (peculiar or individual).

• 10 to 20 new words a month (normally nouns).

• MISMATCH: when a word is used to label objects with no apparent logic.

Two word stage signs

• Vocab of +200 words.

• Pronunciation still needs improvement but standardisation begins.

• Adults will always respond to a child, even if they make mistakes (behaviourist).

• Negatives appear but as a one word sentence.

Telegraphic stage signs

• Important lexical words appear (prepositions, determiners, auxiliaries, inflections).

• Pronunciation develops).

• Inflections (adding plurals, "ed") develop but overgeneralisation occurs ("sheeps", "goed").

• "Wh" questions appear.

• Negatives are still hard to grasp.

• Some auxiliary verbs may be omitted.

• Pronouns are used but in an inaccurate way as they are complex.

Post Telegraphic stage signs

• More adult speech style

• Grammatical words were previously omitted are now appear in a sentence alongside content words

• Subtle nuances of language such as contracted forms, verb inflections and formation of pronouns will be accurate by thus point

What happens to a child’s speech at 4?

• Child will be speaking in largely grammatical accurate and complete sentences