Speech Aquisition - Grammar

Speech Aquisition - Grammar

1. Auxiliary Verbs

   • A verb used alongside a main verb to form tenses

2. Modal Auxiliaries

   • Verbs which support a main verb, used to signal intention or politness

3. Qualifiers

   • Modify nouns, telling how much or how many

4. Determiners

   • Words that precede and modify a noun

5. Inflections

   • Added to the end of words to express grammatical meaning

6. Linked to Syntax Development

7. Two-Word utterances can have different meanings

8. Brown (1973)

   • 1. 'ing' - e.g 'Running'
   • 2. Plural S - e.g 'Apples'
   • 3. Possessive S - e.g 'Mummy's'
   • 4. Determiners - e.g 'the' 'a'
   • 5. Past tense 'ed' - e.g 'Jumped'
   • 6. Third person singular ending verb - e.g 'eats'
   • 7. Auxiliary - e.g 'is' 'are' 'was' 'where'

9. First year, children reply on singular words, e.g 'no'

   • Second year, children acquire who, what, where, when, how
     • Third year, begin to use auxiliary verbs, learn to create questions. During the third year, children acquire 'don't' and 'can't', placed after the subject, but before the verb