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

2. 6 Stages of Language development
Pre-linguistic Stage(0-10 months)
One Word Sentence Stage(10-18 months)
Two Word Sentence Stage(18-24 months)
Multiple Word Sentence Stage(2-3 years old)
More Complex Grammatical Structure(3-5 years)
Adult-like Language Structure(6 years+)

3. Pre-linguistic Stage
The child needs to hear the language to be able to learn the language.
By 6 months the baby can tell if someone is speaking a foreign language or the native language of the baby
The baby understands rhythm, syllables, sounds, and cadence of spoken words

4. One Word Sentence Stage
By 10 months the child understands around 10 words
Fis phenomenon occurs
Overextension
Under-extension
Learn about 2 words per week
Understand 10 times more than they can speak

5. Two Word Sentence Stage
Naming Explosion happens
Learn words per month
Cultural Differences
North America concentrates on nouns
East Asia concentrates on human interaction
Start to learn grammar

6. Multiple Word Sentence Stage
By 2 years old the child knows about 500 words
Continue learning grammar and words, start to learn more verbs

7. More Complex Grammatical Structure
By 3 the child uses correct word order
use plurals, tenses, and articles(ex. the, a) correctly
Grammar correlates with the size of the child’s vocabulary
Grammar also helps the child understand what people are saying better

8. Adult-like Language Structure
By 6, the child knows 10,000 words
Fast-mapping
Learn 20 words per day
More flexible and logical use of grammar and vocabulary
Can use and understand metaphors
Learn formal and informal codes

9. Hypotheses About Language Development in Children
Infants need to be taught(B.F. Skinner)
Infants teach themselves(Noam Chomsky)
Social impulses foster infant language learning

10. Infants Need to Be Taught
Language learned step by step through association and reinforcement
Parents are expert teachers
Learn through frequent repetition
Well taught children will be well spoken children
If you want children to speak, understand, and read well, you need to talk to them

11. Infants Teach Themselves
Language learning is innate
Language cannot be learned step by step
“Universal Grammar”
The mind is ready to learn whatever language is offered
The caregiver is a nutrient to learning a language but not the “trigger”

12. Social Impulses Foster Infant Language Learning
People are social so the child will try to communicate any way it can
Children like the attention from trying to speak
Learn more through the emotional message, rather than the words used
Learn better through personal contact than through video

13. Bilingualism
Children under 6 keep languages distinct but have the same activation site on the brain
In adults, languages usually have different activation sites
Pronunciation errors do not slow down learning in children
Children under 6 learn mostly just by listening to language
In middle childhood, learn by listening and also are assisted by instruction in language
Languages are best learned when connected with the culture
After puberty, learning a new language becomes more difficult
To learn a new language you need 3 thing
To practice speaking the language
Internal motivation to learn the language
A reason the language is needed

14. 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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mercer.edu
childrenschoice.com