Holophrastic Stage

Write short notes on the various Child Language Acquisition Stage - Holophrastic Stage

Pre language stage is where the child learns to manipulate his speech organs to produce various sounds while experimenting with new things. The child progresses on to the Holophrastic stage as he reaches 12-18 mths.

Holophrastic stage
- stage where child learns to use words in a meaningful way while using single words in a meaningful manner to represent an entire phrase or sentence

Characteristics

1) over-generalisation due to limitation of vocabulary
- car to the child may be everything with wheels, and that would include tricycles, motorcycles, aeroplanes etc

2) unclear pronunciation ( may not pronounce the consonants in the begining or the end of the word)
- book may be pronounced as /bu/ rather than /buk/

3) use single word to represent an entire thought (holophrase)
- 'boo' in this case, depending on context, can mean 'read me this book'

4) internalise words of basic concepts most associated with
-content words such as Milk are spoken.

Problems - what count as a word

It is difficult to distinuguish between words in a sentence even with the help of length markers.
- thus child might find it difficult to distinguish between words in a sequence of sounds.

Eg : Here's your \Elmo
- easy to tell that Elmo is a single word.
-but it would be difficult for the child to tell apart (here's your) as 2 single words.
-in (here's your) , there are 2 syllables, similar to the word (elmo)
Eg:
/tsIju:/ Child's version of See you.
Child may use the above word to replace something similar in English like 'hello"