babies babble across languages W r i t i n g

Please answer the questions below, I will upload he chapter that is needed to answer the questions. Must be in own words…

1. What is the age range when a baby says it’s first words.

2. Studies have shown that, while newborns may not be able to understand individual words, we know that they are wired to pick up language from birth. Tell me three ways we know this.

3. In terms of language patterns, the two experiments with mothers-to-be (reading and doing rhymes) showed what about babies and language?

4. Which do babies start learning first: consonants or vowels? How do we know?

5. Define minimal pairs

6. Just because a child can hear differences in sounds, does that mean they can produce them? How can you tell?

7. How does babbling work? Does it stay the same? If it changes, how does it? Is it absolutely necessary to develop pronunciation skills? How do we know?

8. When looking at the consonant sounds that babies babble across languages, why do you think the “uncommon consonants” are uncommon? How does the experiment about children learning French, English, Japanese, and Swedish show this?

9. What is the typical consonant set for a two year old? Do they appear in all parts of the words equally or are some more common in certain places of the word (front, middle, end)? Which ones?

10. By age four, what consonants sounds still haven’t been learned?

11. Define deletion (in terms of language acquisition), and give examples (that don’t appear in the book) of how it works?

12. Define substitution (in terms of language acquisition), and give examples (that don’t appear in the book) of how it works?

13. Define assimilation (in terms of language acquisition), and give examples (that don’t appear in the book) of how it works

14. How does word stress in longer words affect how children pronounce words?