ANT215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Child Development Stages, Joint Attention, Vocabulary Development
18 May 2020
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Developmental milestones are attained at about the same age as most children. Children go through developmental phases and periods. Children develop knowledge of these components concurrently. Knowledge in one domain is often used in acquiring knowledge in another. Content (semantics), form (phonology, morphology, syntax), use (pragmatics) Types of clauses used by child (form, syntax) Around 9-10 months they are intentional, still prelinguistic ** One of the first interactive communication acts. Joint attention: child"s ability to attend to an object or activity and another person. 8 and 15 months - request objects or activities, refusal, comments. 16 and 23 months - requesting information, answering questions, acknowledging a response. Early discourse skills - begins in preschool and continues. Begins towards the end of the first year of life and continues to develop throughout one"s life. First words typically produced around 12 months ** By two years, children typically produce 200-500 words and understand many more words than they produce.
