CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

COGNITION AND EMOTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A person who hears a recording of Japanese, Spanish and North American children babbling would:
A
Not be able to tell them apart
B
Be able to tell them apart if they were olderthan 6 months
C
Beable to tell them apart if they were older than 8 to 10 months
D
Be able to tell them apart at any age
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -However, by the time that they are about 1 year old, they can only discriminate among those phonemes that are used in the language or languages in their environments (Jensen, 2011; Werker & Lalonde, 1988; Werker & Tees, 1984).

Detailed explanation-2: -Babbling stage An early stage of speech that occurs around the age of 3-4 months when children produce spontaneous meaningless sounds (ex. ah-goo). It’s basically when they use phonemes that aren’t from your language.

Detailed explanation-3: -D-Phonemes are sets of basic sounds (in fact, the smallest set of sounds) that are the building blocks to all spoken language.

Detailed explanation-4: -Telegraphic sentences are concise sentences that usually contain five words or less. They are commonly used by toddlers during the second year of their language acquisition by taking away grammar in making sentences and just leaving the content words. Telegraphic sentences contain nouns and verbs with direct meaning.

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