Child Language Acquisition

• They see it more than hear it
• Need eye contact to communicate
• NVC (non-verbal communication) as the main source of communication
• Intonation- sound of words, rhythm, stress
• Lip reading
• At around 18 months, a child learns about 10 words a day
• Deaf children exposed to sign language show the same stages of language acquisition, as do hearing children exposed to spoken languages
• If a person develops his/her language after puberty he/she will never be able to fully acquire language
• Children at the age of 18 months will have a productive vocabulary of around 50 words
• A child can understand more words than he/she can speak
• If you can expose a baby to two languages at the sane time, he/she will learn both