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Stages of Language Development

Language development is the process by which children acquire the ability to process speech and communicate. It occurs in stages as children slowly understand linguistic patterns, expand their vocabulary, and achieve fluency. The rate of development can vary between children and is influenced by factors like environment and physical development. Language development involves acquiring skills in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics according to various theories including nativism and behaviorism. It progresses from pre-linguistic sounds to single words, two-word phrases, telegraphic speech, and ultimately complex sentences.

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Stages of Language Development

Language development is the process by which children acquire the ability to process speech and communicate. It occurs in stages as children slowly understand linguistic patterns, expand their vocabulary, and achieve fluency. The rate of development can vary between children and is influenced by factors like environment and physical development. Language development involves acquiring skills in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics according to various theories including nativism and behaviorism. It progresses from pre-linguistic sounds to single words, two-word phrases, telegraphic speech, and ultimately complex sentences.

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LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

Christy Mathew
CONTENTS:
• Introduction
• Components of Language Development
• Theories of Language Development
• Stages of Language Development
• Factors influencing and affecting Language
Development
• Interesting facts
• References
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LANGUAGE
DEVELOPMEN
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Language development is the process through


which children acquire the ability to process
speech and communicate. During this process,
a child may slowly understand basic linguistic
patterns and expand their vocabulary
gradually before achieving fluency. Although
the stages of language development are
universal, the rate at which each child
progresses can vary. Certain factors can
influence a child's language learning
capabilities, including motivation,
environment, gender and physical
development.

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Components of Language Development:

Language Components:
1. Phonology: the patterns of basic speech units and the accepted rules of pronunciation
2. Morphology: smallest meaningful units of speech
3. Syntax: how individual words and basic meaningful units are combined
4. Semantics: the ways in which a language conveys meaning
5. Pragmatics: the appropriate use of language

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Theories of Language Development:

• Nativism emphasizes the role of biology and explains that language


development is a result of a universal grammar which gives brain and innate
capacity to learn language.
• Behavioral and social cognition theory emphasize the role of reinforcement
and imitation respectively, as a way to shape language development in
children.
• Interactionism brings ideas of nativism and behavioral theories together and
explains that the biological readiness of a child and experiences in the
environment together paves way for language development.
• Cognitive processing theory talks about “data crunching” capacity of human
brain and suggests that infants statistically analyze the speech they hear to
figure out language. •

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Stages of Language Development:

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1. Pre-linguistic stage 2. Babbling stage

• Also known as the pre-linguistic stage, the first • The second stage of a child's language
stage of language development often occurs development happens between the ages of 6 and
between zero and six months. Children in this phase 9 months. Children begin to babble, making
don't have developed language skills, so they noises and syllables that aren’t yet words. Mouth
communicate with sounds. They cry, make cooing muscles and teeth grow to prepare children for
sounds and utter nasal murmurs as their vocal more advanced talking.
tracts develop. Infants can also recognize voices and
sounds in addition to facial expressions and voice
tones.

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3. Holophrastic stage 4. Two-word stage

• The third phase of language development, also • During this stage, the child can speak two-word
known as the holophrastic stage, usually happens sentences that usually have some meaning. They
between the ages of 9 and 18 months. During this group words together that they learned during the
time, their language skills usually have increased holophrastic stage. Some examples may include:
enough for them to say single words that describe • Saying "more food" at the table
objects or identify their basic needs. For instance, • Saying "doggy small" to describe a dog
a child in this stage might say "dada" as a way of
getting their dad's attention. • Saying "thank mom!" to show appreciation

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5. Telegraphic stage 6. Multi-word stage

• The telegraphic stage occurs between the ages of 24 and • Beyond 30 months, children enter the multi-word
30 months. Children can speak phrases that are not only stage. They build increasingly complex sentences
longer but also have more than two elements. For that allow them to better communicate their ideas.
instance, a child might say “The cat stand up on the They also start to incorporate morphemes to make
table.” Correct grammar still isn’t prevalent in this stage,
more semantically sound phrases. For instance,
but the sentence conveys that the cat is standing up in
addition to being on the table. The child also develops they know to use the word “dogs” instead of “dog”
the ability to understand basic instructions, including when referring to more than one dog. The
two-part orders like "go to your table and get your telegraphic stage occurs between the ages of 24
books." and 30 months.

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Language development in Early Language development in Late
childhood(2-6 years): Childhood(6-12 years):
• Major tasks involved in learning to speak are: • Areas of improvement observed in late childhood
1. Increasing comprehension are:
2. Building a vocabulary 1. Speech improvement
3. Mastering pronunciation
2. Improvement in comprehension
4. Combining words into sentence
• Speech disorders: 3. Content of Speech
1. Lisping 4. Amount of Talking
2. Slurring
3. stuttering

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Factors influencing Language Factors affecting Language
Development: Development:

• Intelligence • Physical or medical factors


• Hearing or Visual
• Type of discipline Impairment
• Ordinal position • Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Family size • Developmental Delay
• Speech Language Disorder
• Socio-economic status
or Delay
• Bilingualism • Opportunities for talk and
interaction
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Interesting Facts:

How do children learn words quickly?


1. Fast-mapping(Taylor and Gelman,1988): The process whereby a child learns the
meaning of a word after only hearing it once or twice.
2. Syntactical Boot-strapping(Gleitman,1990): This refers to the notion that children gain
information about a word by how it is used in a sentence.
-Developmental psychology, Dianne Catherwood and Rachel Gillibrand

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References:
• https://www.child-encyclopedia.com/language-development-and-literacy/according-experts/factors
-influence-language-development
• https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/stages-of-language-development#:~:te
xt=What%20is%20language%20development%3F,vocabulary%20gradually%20before%20achievi
ng%20fluency
.
• Developmental Psychology, Dianne Catherwood and Rachel Gillibrand
• Textbook of Human Development, Dr. Sushila Shrivastava and Dr. K Sudha Rani
• Course Hero
• Speechblubs.com

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