Language learning in early chilhood
first language acquisition
the fist three years
development sequences
earliest vocalizations
cooing and gurling sounds
children recognize the language of their mother before they were born
auditory discriminations
the pre-school years
at the age of 4
ask questions
give commands
create stories
children acquire basic structures
passives
relative clauses
metalinguistic awareness
complex knowledge
skills for language
the school years
use the language to understand
reading reinforces the understanding
ambiguity
atonishing growth of vocabularity
registers
regionsl variety
standard variety
bilingualism
inpresive
sounds that aren't phonemic
they need to interact
monolingualal
at 12 moths, babies begun to produce a word
at 2 age children produce 50 words
bilingual
they conbine words
telegraphic
discovery of language
predictable patterns
stages
functions words and grammatical morphemes are missing
grammatical morphemes
longitudinal study
present progressive
possesive
plural
irregular forms
order of acquisition
hypotheses
complexity
dificulty
pronouncing
procedures
wug test
generalizing
memorizad words
negation
no
don't
can't
did't
questions
wh
stage 2 rising intonation
stage 3: structure is different
stage 4: formed by auxuliary-subject
stage 5: formed correctly
stage 6:are able to correct
cross-sectional study