Language development
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Language Development Activity
DaMysha Hill
Eastern Gateway Community College
Cognitive/ Physical Development of Children
Jon Mosora
11/26/2023
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Language Development Activity
Semantics is the understanding of word meanings and the relationship between words.
Children semantics development is a gradual process beginning just before the child says their
first word and incudes a wide range of word types. (Development milestones references)
Semantic development is the part of childhood language development during which children
assign meaning to words and are able to compare words to other words. It begins before children
know how to speak or read. (Team, 2022) In order to acquire the semantics of a language, a child
must do three things: first, they must identify the relevant linguistic items, second, they must
identify (and understand) the meanings these link to, and third, they must learn how the forms
connect to the meanings. (Wagner, 2010)
When a child hears a word for the first time, he tries to
understand the meaning using past experience, intellect, memory, etc. Children of up to one year
old know the meaning of 50 to 100 words and their vocabulary grows rapidly from there.
(Team,
2022)
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References
Development milestones references
. Crown Pediatric Speech Therapy. (n.d.).
https://crownspeech.com/development-milestones-references/
Team, Expert. ai. (2022, May 20).
Semantic development definition: Humans vs. machines
.
expert.ai.
https://www.expert.ai/blog/semantic-development-
definition/#:~:text=Semantic%20development%20definition%3A%20How%20humans%2
0learn&text=When%20a%20child%20hears%20a,vocabulary%20grows%20rapidly%20fr
om%20there
.
Wagner, L. (2010).
Speech perception and production - University of California, Irvine
. The
acquisition of Semantics .
https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~lpearl/courses/readings/CasserlyPisoni2010_SpeechPerception
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