First Language acquisition

Chapter 16. By Yule

1. Which are two important features of the caretaker speech?
The Two importan features of caretaker speech are simple sentence structure and a lot of repetition.
It simplified speech style adopted by someone who spends a lot of time interacting woth young children. This simplified style of speech has to do with frecuent questions,using exaggerated intonation and a simple sentence structure and repetition.
2.What is the term used to describe the process where a child uses one word like “Ball” to refer to an apple, an egg and a ball?
This process is called The one-word or holophrastic stage ( 12 to 18 months): Children begin to produce a variety of recognizablesingle unit utterances.

3.What is the role of feedback in children learning?
The role of feedback is usually confirms that the utterance "worked", because the child not only produces speech, also the adult allows this interaction and the communication takes place.