Lexis, Syntax and Grammar
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- Lexis Semantics and Grammar
- Lexis
- First words were put into five categories by Nelson
- 1 - Classes of Objects
- 2 - Specific Objects
- 3 - Actions/Events
- 4 - Modifying things
- 5 - Personal social
- Children will use words creatively if they don't know the meaning of something
- These are known as over and under extensions
- Aitchison came up with three development processes
- Labelling - Can attribute a sound to an object
- Packaging - When a child starts to understand the range of meaning a word might have.
- Network Building - when children start to make connections between words
- Holophrases contain a complete idea
- Caregivers need contextual cues to interpret these and often rely on paralinguistic communication
- First words were put into five categories by Nelson
- Syntax
- This begins at the start of the two-word stage as children start to create grammatical relationships
- Subject + Verb. Ex, doggy bark.
- Verb + Object. Ex, throw ball
- Subject + Object. Ex, baby eat
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- This consists of around 3-4 utterances at around 2 years old (telegraphic stage)
- Subject + Verb +Complement. Ex, dog is smelly.
- Subject + Verb + Object. Ex, baby want drink
- Verb + Object + Object. Ex, pass daddy suace
- This begins at the start of the two-word stage as children start to create grammatical relationships
- Grammar
- Brown found a set order in which Children acquire inflections
- 1 Present Participle "-ing"
- 2 Plural "-s"
- 3 possessive "-'s"
- 4 articles "a" and "the"
- 5 Past tense "-ed"
- 6 Third person singulars "-s"
- Auxiliary " be"
- Cruttenden found three stages in which these are learnt
- Inconsistent usage
- Consistent but sometimes misapplied
- Consistent usage
- Children often use grammatical rules without being taught them as long as they're in an environment where language is being used and they can interact with others
- Proved through the Wug Test
- Bellgui categorised the process of children learning negatives, pronouns and questions
- Negatives. 1) use no or not to form negatives. 2)use no and not in front of verbs and develop contracted negatives. 3) moves the negative inside the sentence
- Pronouns. 1) using their own name. 2) recognises I/me pronouns 3) uses pronouns according to whether they are in the subject or object position
- Questions. 1) use of rising intonation. 2) the use of interrogative pronouns/"wh" words. 3) the use of subject-verb inversion, as well as the use of auxiliary verbs for the first time.
- Brown found a set order in which Children acquire inflections
- Lexis
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