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Developing Grammar
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- 1Syntactical advances allow children to...1. Order words into phrases and clauses
2. make different types of utterances for different functions - 2Morphological advances allow children to...1. use inflectional morphology (the alteration of words to make new grammatical forms)
2. use derivational morphology (the creation of new words by adding prefixes and suffixes) - 3Question word order1. what - subject or object
2. where - location
3. why - reason
4. when - time - 4Bellugi's Stages of Negative Formation1. uses no or not at the the beginning of a sentence - 'no wear shoes'
2. moves no / not inside the sentence - 'i no want it'
3. attaches the negative to auxiliary verbs and the copula verb 'to be' securely. 'no i don't want to' 'i am not'. - 5David Crystal's alternative to saying noMaybe - used when adults don't want to be direct.
- 6Bellugi's Stages of Pronoun Development1. Child uses own name - Tom play
2. Child uses I / me pronouns and knows that they are used in different places in a sentence - I play toy, Me do that
3. Child uses pronouns according to whether they are in the subject or object position - I play with the toy, Give it to me - 7DeterminersAttached to nouns.
Articles - a, the
Numerals - one, two
Possessives - my
Quantifiers - some, many
Demonstratives - this - 8Free MorphemeOne that can stand alone as an independent word. e.g. apple.
- 9Bound morphemeOne that cannot stand alone as an independent word but must be attached to another morpheme / word.
e.g. plural -s. - 10Virtuous ErrorsSyntactic errors made by children in which the non-standard utterance reveals some understanding of standard syntax
- 11OvergeneralisationsExtension of a word meaning or grammatical rule beyond its normal use.
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- A Levels English Language (Child Language Acquisition) Flashcards on Developing Grammar, created by sarahsing on 18/01/2015.
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