In almost every case, the development of children’s languages ??follows a predictable sequence. However, there are significant variations in the age at which children reach a given milestone. In addition, each child’s development is often marked by the gradual acquisition of certain skills
There are many different ways to show the sequence of developments. On the production side, another method of classification is as follows, with a strong focus on the integration of well-linked and well-executed information:
Below chart characterize the development sequence
| Stage | Typical age | Description |
| Babbling | 6-8 months | Repetitive CV patterns |
| One-word stage (better one-morphemeor one-unit) or holophrastic stage | 9-18 months | Single open-class words or word stems |
| Two-word stage | 18-24 months | “mini-sentences” with simple semantic relations |
| Telegraphic stage or early multiword stage (better multi-morpheme) | 24-30 months | “Telegraphic” sentence structures oflexical rather than functional orgrammatical morphemes |
| Later multiword stage | 30+ months | Grammatical or functional structures emerge |
Holophrastic – One Word Stage
Holophrastic is expressing a complex of ideas in a single word or in a fixed phrase. About ten months later, infants begin to express themselves clearly. Some words such as words that do not match the words of the local language may be used by particular infants to express certain emotional states: one infant expresses happiness, and another express “sadness or discomfort”.
For the most part, visual words are used in contexts that appear to involve naming: “duck” while a child hits a toy duck on the edge of a bath; “sweep” while the child sweeps the broom; “motor vehicle” while a child looks out of the living room window on a subway; “father” when the child hears a doorbell.
Young children often use words in smaller or more comprehensive ways: “bottle” used only for plastic bottles; “teddy” used only for a specific bear; “dog” used for lambs, cats, cattle and dogs; “kicking” used for pressing and flapping wings and kicking. These under extensions and additions improve and change over time with each child’s use.
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