1. By: Adam and Andrew Gubler
Language Development
By:
Adam and Andrew Gubler

2. Prelinguistic Stage 0-10 months Cooing, babbling, eye contact
Hear to learn and see it.
At 6 months babies can tell if you are speaking their native tongue
Babies can recognize speech sounds of all languages.
Understand rhythm, syllables, sounds, and cadence of spoken words
Prelinguistic Stage

3. One Word Sentence 10-18 months
By 10 months the child understands 5-10 Words
Child understands 10 times more than it can speak.
Fis Phenomenon
Overextension
Underextension
Learn about 2 words per week
One Word Sentence

4. Two word Sentence 18-24 months Naming Explosion 50-100 words per month
Cultural differences
Start learning grammar by about 21 months.
Two word Sentence

5. Multiple Word Sentence
2-3 years old
At 2 years old they know about 500 words
Continue to learn grammar.
Multiple Word Sentence

6. More complex grammatical structure
3-5 years old
At three they can correctly order sentences, use plurals, tenses, and articles
Grammar correlates with vocab
Grammar also helps with the understanding of others.
More complex grammatical structure

7. Adult-like 6+ At six they know about 10000 words Fast mapping
Learn 20 words per day
More flexible and logical in use of grammar
Use and understand metaphors
Learn formal and informal codes
Adult-like

8. Hypotheses for Language Development
Infants need to be taught
Infants teach themselves
Social impulses foster infant language learning.
Hypotheses for Language Development

9. Infants need to be taught
B.F. Skinner
Language is acquired step by step through association and reinforcement
Parents are expert teachers
Frequent repetition
If children are well taught they become well spoken.
Extensive language exposure
Australian experiment
Need to be talked with
Infants need to be taught

10. Infants teach themselves
Noam Chomsky
Language learning is innate
Language is too complicated to be taught step by step
Universal grammar
The mind can learn any language during childhood
When the caregiver speaks with the child it helps nourish language development, it doesn’t trigger it.
Infants teach themselves

11. Social Impulses foster infant language learning
Try to communicate because of social aspects.
Like the attention.
The emotional message helps children learn not words
Learn better in person than on video.
Social Impulses foster infant language learning

12. Children under 6 keep languages distinct but in the same activation site in the brain.
Adults have different activation sites
Pronunciation errors don’t effect children
Children under 6 learn only by listening
Children older than 6 learn by listening and can also be assisted by instruction.
Middle childhood is the best time to learn a second language.
After puberty it becomes more difficult to learn a language.
Languages are best learned when connected with the culture.
In order to learn a second language you need to 1) practice speaking the language. 2) Have an internal motivation and 3) have a reason why the language is needed.
Bilingualism

13. Work Cited Webspace.ship.edu
Psychology/ss/early-childhood-development_4.html
Invitation to the Life Span by: Kathleen Stassen Berger
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