A | B |
Instrumental | I want |
Regulatory | Do as I tell you |
Interactional | Me and you |
Personal | Here I come |
Heuristic | Tell me why |
Imaginative | Let's pretend |
Informative | I've got something to tell you |
Random | Cooing, gurgling, babbling |
Unitary | Holophrastic speech |
Expansion and Delimiting | Children move to more adult speech-- some still use pivot words |
Structural Awareness | Irregular verbs are regularized: "I go" made past tense to "I goed" |
Automatic | Internalized grammar, but can't always explain why |
Creative | Children invent their own language |
Motor development and language acquisition | Usually directly related |
18 to 24 months | 272 words |
up to 18 months | 22 words |
by six years of age | over 2500 words |
Creativity | imagination plus knowledge plus evaluation |
preparation, incubation | illumination, verification |
Creativity doesn't... | just happen |