Children's phonological development

Children's phonological development

1. Stages of development

   • Before Birth
   • Crying
   • Cooing
   • Babbling
   • Phonemic expansion and contraction
   • Intonation and gesture
   • Understanding
   • The first word

2. Trends in phonological development

   • Deletion
   • Substitution
   • Reduplication
   • Assimilation

3. John Dore

   • Labelling
   • Repeating
   • Anwering
   • Requesting action
   • Calling
   • Greeting
   • Protesting
   • Practising

4. One word stage/ holophrastic

5. Two word stage

6. Telegraphic stage

7. Cruttenden (inflections)

   • Stage 1) Children memorise words on an individual basis
   • Stage 2) Children show an awareness of the general rules of inflections - overgeneralisation
   • Stage 3) Correct inflections are used

8. Brown

   • 1) -ing
   • 2) plural '-s'
   • 3) possessive '-s'
   • 4) the, a
   • 5) past tense '-ed'
   • 6) third person singular verb ending - s; e.g. he sings
   • 7) auxiliary verb 'be'