Language acquisition

CONTENT Introduction …………………………………………......……..… 3 Main body 1. Language acquisition ………………………….….….......… 4 2. The stages of language acquisition ……………....…......….. 5 2.1. The prelinguistic stage ……….….........…...........… 7 2.2. Babbling ………………………........…...........…… 7 2.3. One-word utterances ……………..…....…...........… 9 2.4. Two-word utterances ……………..............…..….... 10 2.5. Telegraphic speech …………………........…...…… 13 2.6. Language learning during the pre-school period ….. 16 3. The critical period …………………………………….......… 17 4. The summary of behaviours to expect of children with normally developing speech and language …… 19 5. The language acquisition cannot be sped up ………….……. 20 6. Tips to help develop speech communication in a child …………….…………….. 22 Conclusion ………………………………………….…………….. 24 Bibliography ………………………………………...……………. 25 INTRODUCTION Children’s acquisition of language has long been considered one of the …showed first 75 words of 7512 total…

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