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THE MILESTONES OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE.
Einstein was no elephant
The mammal brain re-organizes it's function at three months into paired modalities
The human brain re-organizes itself again at 12 months into a single unit
0 to 1 minute--well, for crying out loud
1 minute to 2 months--How do you spell Major Nuisance? U-n-d-i-f-f-e-r-e-n-t-i-a-t-e-d c-r-y-i-n-g.
How do you spell opportunity: i-n-c-o-n-v-e-n-i-e-n-c-e ?
Cast your crumbs upon the water and what do you getÑsoggy crumbs!
2 months to 3 months--How do you spell baby-communication: d-i-f-f-e-r-e-n-t-i-a-t-e-d c-r-y-i-n-g.
3 to 6 monthsÑout of the mouths of babes comes BABBLING.
Babbling is a genetic inheritance for the human species only--no primates allowed.
So what is the child doing motorically at 3 to 6 months during the period of Babbling?
6 to 8 monthsÑBabies are not just LALLING around, but are also using the JARGON of their language.
Consonants appear from front to back and vowels from back to front--and all this in just on semester!
Someone is talking to the fairies.
Look Dear, they're not playing our song!
Prosody is not just a tune--it is a percussion
Look Dear, they're playing someone else's song!
May I have this dance? May you have this dance!
Prosody includes Junk-sure to be missed by a non native speaker.
We are not talking Supra-calafragilistic-espialadocious here.
Asking a person to dance can create all kinds of Stress
We are not talking supra-segmental-phonemes here, So what is the child doing motorically at 6 to 8 months--during the period of Lalling and Jargon?
8 to 12 monthsÑIt sounds like speech but itÕs really ECHOLALIA to me.
So what is the child doing motorically at 8 to 12 months during the period of Echolalia?
1 year to 1 1/2 years--Identification Language
So what is the child doing motorically at 1 year to 1 1/2 years during the period of Identification Language?
1 1/2 years to 2 years--Anticipatory Language, and the Holophrastic sentence.
So what is the child doing motorically at 1 1/2 years to 2 year, during the period of Anticipatory Language?
TWO to 2 1/2 YEARSÑSYNTACTIC SPEECH--50 small words for baby and a big bang for language development!
Language and the Big Bang Theory--duality of patterning.
Separating the babies from the gorillas.
The search for Baby Grammar
All the world Ôs a stage, and Morphemes and Semantic features are the playersÉ( W. Shakespeare)
So what is the child doing motorically at 2 to 2 1/2 years, during the stage of Syntactic Speech?
TWO and 1/2 to 3 YEARSÑCOMMUNICATIVE INTENT--and a 1000 new bucks for your bang!
BE THERE !
So, what is the child doing motorically at 2 1/2 to 3 years, during the stage of Communicative Intent?
THREE YEARS to SenescenceÑINDIVIDUO-WHAT?
Restricted Language--More Bang for your Buck
Formal Language--More Bucks for your Bang
So now, here is the child's problem
So now here is the teacher's problem, part A
So now here is the teacher's problem, part B
So now here is the solution
Here is some food for thought--Serve some Formal Language for Meals
So, what is the child doing motorically at 3 years, beginning the stage of Individuolect ?
What more can I say?
Come together, right nowÉover me
Come, come, come, come, to..to..to..together right now, come together right, right now over, over, over, over, over, over, me.
Come together, right now, but then wait and donÕt say anything
Stuttering can be a self fulfilling prophecy
Not all sounds are equal
For this we have a solution.
So have we said it all now?
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