Language: The Four Stages For The Development Of Language

When you look at pictures of yourself from when you were born until your present physical state, questions of how you came to be the way you are usually flood your mind. You begin to think, “Why don’t I look like that anymore”, “what changed?’ These are all dire questions to predicting who you will be because you cannot know who are until you have understood who you were. Language is a major part of our development and helps us communicate properly with everyone in our environment. How do you we acquire language? Do we have some idea of how to speak language before we are born? Or do we begin learning everything after we are born?
The stages for the development of language have been divided into four parts. The first of which is known as the pre-linguistic period from the 0-4 months where children are involved in crying, cooing and babbling, all of which are considered to be the beginning of language production. The second stage is known as the one word stage at 12 months, then two word stage at 24 months, and lastly the preschool period at 24 plus months. Naima is a small child in the transcripts who showed evidence of how children transition through these stages and eventually properly learn language. The transcripts begins

The errors made by children while learning language does not appear to be random. The errors appear to have some structure to it. They have what is known as cluster reduction and syllable deletion when pronouncing words. As discussed in class, they are more likely to delete syllables without emphasis than they are ones with emphasis. The fact that they are not randomly deleting any syllable but rather ones that are most likely to go unheard shows that errors made children while learning language has a structure. These are structures that may or may not be present in adult language although it may become evident when the adult begins learning a new