Trace the development of language from the newborn to childhood and describe the characteristics most important in an infant's language development
What will be an ideal response?
* Infants making one-syllable utterances (babbling).
* Children convey their first meaningful word at about 12 months.
* Telegraphic speech consists of the child leaving words out of their sentences, yet the intent of the speech is usually clear.
* Children utter their first sentence at about 18 months.
* Vocabulary development continues at a rapid pace through high school.
* Children seem to know how to string words together in the correct sequence for their language to convey the intended meaning.
*Children tend to overgeneralize grammatical rules. (See Table 8-3, p. 320.)
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