English Language Learning (Native Speakers)
Stage/Age
Language Overall
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
Implications on reading and writing
Practical Approaches
Birth -3 mo.
Cries, responds to tone, attentive to special sounds, and begins to vocalize.
Reflexive and diverse cries, coos and gurgles.
Verbal play, some consonants, laughing.
No understanding
Sounds or intensity as opposed to meaning.
Music and talk to child
Double syllables, MAMA, tunefully vocalize
Vocalizes pleasure and pain; initiates speech, reproduces babbles.
Increased sounds and imitation
Very little understanding
Truck red; hungry eat, etc.
Use of words and instructi8ons, jargon and jabber before frequent
Imitates some words, asks questions using intonation, vast improvement in tone and sound.
Stage I morphemes; nomination,
Most language is noun based, finger pointing, usually sentences are 2 words.
Action + Agent, Agent + Object, etc. (Daddy is laughing, I push the truck)
Very imitative stage
Show pictures of nouns and ask questions
2-4 years...
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