GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES
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Question
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How does Nelson’s first 50 words support this?
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One of the words was ‘play’
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Some of the words are social
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Most of the words are nouns
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One of the words was ‘wassat’
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -From the data she collected, Nelson categorised the children’s words into six categories: specific nominals; general nominals; action words; personal social words; and grammatical function words.
Detailed explanation-2: -Your child’s first 50 words make up what is called his expressive vocabulary.
Detailed explanation-3: -T/F: For children acquiring English, nouns dominate early vocabularies: typically, of their first 50 words, 45% are nouns and only 3% are verbs.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nelson specified the following six categories of the children’s words during this time period: specific nominals, general nominals, action words, modifiers, personal social words, and grammatical function words.
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