Developing Grammar

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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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Syntactical advances allow children to... 1. Order words into phrases and clauses 2. make different types of utterances for different functions
Morphological 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)
Question word order 1. what - subject or object 2. where - location 3. why - reason 4. when - time
Bellugi's Stages of Negative Formation 1. 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'.
David Crystal's alternative to saying no Maybe - used when adults don't want to be direct.
Bellugi's Stages of Pronoun Development 1. 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
Determiners Attached to nouns. Articles - a, the Numerals - one, two Possessives - my Quantifiers - some, many Demonstratives - this
Free Morpheme One that can stand alone as an independent word. e.g. apple.
Bound morpheme One that cannot stand alone as an independent word but must be attached to another morpheme / word. e.g. plural -s.
Virtuous Errors Syntactic errors made by children in which the non-standard utterance reveals some understanding of standard syntax
Overgeneralisations Extension of a word meaning or grammatical rule beyond its normal use.
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