初生到三岁儿童言语发展记录的初步分析

A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN DURING THE FIRST THREE YEARS

我们用纵向法对五个婴儿从初生到三岁这一期间的言语发展作了记录(采用录音和文字记录),其中三个男孩、两个女孩。但这五个婴儿的记录并不都全,有的缺某一个时期)。记录用两种方式:一种是隔一定时间(一周或更长些日子)作一次记录,每次约半小时。为了使儿童比较自然,不影响他们发音或说话,我们尽可能事先和儿童熟悉。

Sound records of 5 children taken from birth through the first three years ofage were analysed. Three obvious points concerning the development of language inchildren may be shown in the following: (A). The development of language is a continuous, sequential and regular pro-cess with transitional changes both quantitatively and qualitativaly all through. It iscoutinuous as well as by stages, and may be divided into six stages: (1). The stage of simple vocalization —— from birth to 3 mon.; (2). The stage of continued syllable repeating —— 4 to 8 mon.; (3). The stage of beginning to speak —— 9-12 mon.; (4). The stage of one word sentences —— 1 to 1 yr.; (5). The stage of simple sentences —— 1 to 2 yr.; (6). The stage of beginning to use compound sentences —— 2-3 yr.; (B). The shild’s language development proceeds from concrete to abstract, thismay be seen from the process of grasping words and their parts of speeoh. (C). Individual differences in language development are quite clear even amonginfants in such a amall group.