child language acquisition ages?
27 Oct 2009 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneWell, today we touched briefly on developmental psych, and I got to see that template for child language acquisition which has always bothered me so much:
I have known a few children of whom this could be said, but it's drastically off for all the children in my family. I'm on the record with "Well, actually, Mommy, I'll have water," at 11 months, and my sister was speaking in sentences before 2, although I don't remember the specifics. Many of my cousins on my mother's side - most of whom have had nothing like my obsessions with reading, writing, or language in general - talked nearly as early as I did, and earlier than my sister.
Now, I, at least, am obsessed with language and words, and always have been. So perhaps there's some kind of correlation there? But then again, my family aren't, and seem to get less outstanding at it as they age. So maybe it's just genetics? My curiosity is tremendous! And yet I can't find any actual *data* using my Wiki- and Google-fu, argh. Everybody agrees that those ages are "guidelines" and that some children are much faster or slower. Steven Pinker even admitted that some children are producing complex sentences by age two, but that's still a year off for me. I don't want vague statements like this, I want to see some data on a bell curve. And I can't seem to figure out where to find it.
Failing that kind of data, I'll take anecdotal! What about you, fandom denizens, all of you highly verbal, many of you reading and writing obsessed? What have you noticed about yourselves, your families?
1. babbling in first year,
2. single words around age 1,
3. two-word and "telegraphic" sentences at age 2,
4. complex sentences around 3.
I have known a few children of whom this could be said, but it's drastically off for all the children in my family. I'm on the record with "Well, actually, Mommy, I'll have water," at 11 months, and my sister was speaking in sentences before 2, although I don't remember the specifics. Many of my cousins on my mother's side - most of whom have had nothing like my obsessions with reading, writing, or language in general - talked nearly as early as I did, and earlier than my sister.
Now, I, at least, am obsessed with language and words, and always have been. So perhaps there's some kind of correlation there? But then again, my family aren't, and seem to get less outstanding at it as they age. So maybe it's just genetics? My curiosity is tremendous! And yet I can't find any actual *data* using my Wiki- and Google-fu, argh. Everybody agrees that those ages are "guidelines" and that some children are much faster or slower. Steven Pinker even admitted that some children are producing complex sentences by age two, but that's still a year off for me. I don't want vague statements like this, I want to see some data on a bell curve. And I can't seem to figure out where to find it.
Failing that kind of data, I'll take anecdotal! What about you, fandom denizens, all of you highly verbal, many of you reading and writing obsessed? What have you noticed about yourselves, your families?
