Language

Acquisition
Stage
Created by Group 3:
1. Aay Harianti Z (2008103098)
2. Septia Wulandari (2008103077)
Language Acquistion

1. Definition
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According to (Cho, Sook Wan, 2003) From around one month of age, children exhibit the ability
to distinguish among certain speech sounds. In one experiment, infants were presented with a
series of identical [ba] syllables. These were followed by an occurrence of the syllable [pa].

1. Babbling
The ability to produce speech sounds begins to emerge
around six months of age, with the one set of babbling.
Babbling provides children with the opportunity to
experiment with and begin to gain control over their
vocal apparatus—an important pre requisite for later
speech. (W, O' Grady, SW Cho, 2001)
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2. Early Phonetic Process

According to (W, O' Grady, SW Cho, 2001) there are four steps in early phonetic
process:
•Syllable deletion
•Syllable simplification
•Substitution
•Assimilation
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a.Syllable deletion
Phonological process in which speech sounds disappear from words
Vowels can be deleted to make one-syllable words that are easier
to pronounce in a fast manner
Word Child's pronunciation
po tá to [tejdo]
ba ná na [nænə]
to má to [mejdo]

Someone Fa (Mizokami, 2016)

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b. Syllable Simplification

Another frequent process in children’s speech involves the

systematic deletion of certain sounds in order to simplify
syllable structure. For example, the child's pronunciation of
2- 3 years-old children, consonant clusters are reduced by
deleting one or more segments.
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c. Substitution
One of the most wide spread phonetic processes in early language
involves substitution—the systematic replacement of one sound by an
alternative that the child finds easier to articulate.
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d. Assimilation
Still another wide spread phonetic process in child language is assimilation-the modification of one or
more features of a segment under the influence of neighboring sounds. In the following examples,
initial consonants have been voiced in anticipation of the following vowel. Assimilation is also observed
in children's tendency to maintain the same place of articulation for all of the consonants or vowels in
a word. For examples:
tell [del]

pig [bug]

push [bus]
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By age 18 months or so, the average child has a vocabulary of fifty words or more. For examples:
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a. Syntax Development
Like phonological development, the emergence of syntactic structure takes place in an orderly manner
and reveals much about the nature of the language Acquisition process. We will briefly survey some of
the mile stones in this developmental process here.

1. The one-word stage

As noted earlier, children begin to produce one-word utterances between the ages of 12 – 18 months.
For examples:
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2. The two-word stage
Within a few months or 2-3 years old of their first one-word utterances, children begin to produce two-
word ‘mini-sentences’. For examples:
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3. The telegraphic stage

After a period of several months during which their speech is largely limited
to one- and two-word utterances, children begin to produce longer and
more complex grammatical structures. The telegraphic stage is
characterized by the emergence of quite elaborate types of phrase structure
or we call this period is “Proceeding Pureness”
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