My school project

2. 1. How children acquire language.
2. Children language development.
3. Words used by children.
4. Children utterances to express thoughts.

3. 1. Vocalization
2. The One-Word Utterance
3. The many uses of a single word
4. Two – and three-word utterances

4. Vocalization
1. While babies a few months old do not speak, they
do make sound through their mouths. In fact,
they make quite a variety of sound. They cry,
they coo like pigeons, they gurgle, suck, blow,
spit and make a host of other virtually
indescribable noises.
2. Babbling is a type of vocalization where the child
uses speech sound, mainly vowels and consonant-
vowel syllables, e.g. ‘a’, ‘u’, ‘ma’, ‘gi’, ‘pa’. the
child repetitive uttering of these sounds give
them a speech-like quality, e.g. ‘mama’, ‘gigi’,
‘papa’, especially when these sounds are
involved with the features of the intonation
pattern of their language, as they tend to be.

5. The One-Word Utterance
1. On the average, it would seem that children
utter their first word around the age of 10
months.
2. Undoubtedly, too, certain brain of
development is also involved since the
creation of speech sound must come under
the control of speech areas in the cerebral
cortex.

6. The many uses of a single
word.
A single word, even the same one, can be used
for many different purposes, to:
1. name (mama mother)
2. request (banana I want banana)
3. emphasize something (hi greeting)
4. express complex situations(Mama dog
mother was bitten by a dog)

7. Two – and three-word
utterances
At 18 months or so, many children start to
produce two-and three-word utterances. Again
the reader is cautioned that this is but an
average and that there is great individual
variation in this regard.
(Exmples, look at your paper on page 3)

8. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT BABY PHASE

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