During his first months of life, babies are beginning to acquire some communication skills that underlie the language long before saying his first words. Before the children to produce …show more content…
The order of acquisition of words
According to the theory of Rosch (1978) there are three levels of categorization of reality: superordinate, basic and subordenado. The superordinate terms are broader and shared few attributes together (fruit), the basic terms are shared by a larger number of attributes (apple), and subordenados terms are those that share specific attributes (golden). Rosch notes that, with regard to the substantive first basic words are learned, and gradually the general and specific. While we should not forget that the rate at which children are exposed to them is very important.
Moreover, Nelson makes a distinction between abstract and concrete terms, saying the lexicon of children is mainly composed of terms to objects or actionable because they are easier, and also mothers hold many episodes set in naming and described objects. While referring to the abstract words are understood and used correctly later on, and even start to hire two years, children do not understand them correctly until four or five