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Erika Hof
Productivity of Language
Generativity of Language
Syntax
Syntactic Rules
Sentence
Sentence
Sentence
Sentence
Verb Phrase
Noun Phrase
Noun
(Determiner) + (Adjective) +
Example:
Morphology
Morphemes
--- the smallest units of meaning.
--- Bound morphemes and Free
morphemes
Inflectional Morphology
Descriptive rules
--- Linguists, in contrast, take
whatever people do as correct and
to describe the patterns in it.
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An Overview of
Grammatical
Development
Early Multiword
Utterances
Transitional forms
Two-Word Combination
Vertical Constructions
Two-word Combinations
little shell
little ham
little water
Locatives
sand ball ON hand eye IN/TO
hand hair IN stone outside TO
rock outside TO dog house ON
Actor/action
mommy sit daddy work boy walk
daddy sit daddy sleep man walk
Andrew walk daddy walk Elliot sleep
Other combinations
have it egg
dirty face
boom-boom tower
eat fork
back eat
broke pipe daddy boy
window byebye butter honey
Meaning
Example
agent + action
daddy sit
action + object
drive car
agent +object
Mommy sock
agent + location
sit chair
entity + location
toy floor
possessor + possession
my teddy
entity + attribute
crayon big
demonstrative + entity
this telephone
were)
Expressing negation
Asking questions
Expressing Negation
no
Asking Questions
Kinds of Question
Producing complex
sentences
complements
Want you to draw that for me.
Make her eat.
2.Coordinate sentences
You will be the prince and I will be the princess.
He was stuck and I got him out.
3. Subordinate clause sentences in which the main clause is first
and the adjunct clause follows.
They go to sleep
I want this doll because shes big.
4.Object relative clause sentences
There is lot of stuf that needs come of.
Individual diferences in
grammatical development
Holistic (top-down)
Analytical (bottom-up)
Measuring grammatical
development
Questions:
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