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Unit 1 AOS 2 – Child Language Acquisition Personal

Investigation

Interview a parent:

1. What was your first word? Da da


2. Do your parents think you were an early or late speaker? (BTW, Einstein didn’t speak until he
was four-years-old.)
3. Did you make up words for things? yea
4. Were there any sounds you had trouble pronouncing? yea
5. Are there any funny stories your parents might recount about your early years and
language? Called my brother Oliver, loliver

A few you can do by yourself:

6. What is your first language? Are other languages spoken at home? I speak English
7. What is the first language of your parent/s? English
8. Did you first learn to speak English in Australia? If not, where did you first learn to speak
English? Yes, in Australia
9. In your LOTE classes, what aspects do you remember learning first? Greeting, how to greet
people.
10. When learning another language, which subsystems are pushed first in terms of acquiring
the language? Prosodic features.

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