Morphological acquisition and constructed languages
- Created by: Khelsei Singh
- Created on: 28-01-18 14:02
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- Morphological acquisition & constructed languages
- Acquisition of morphology
- Grammatical morphemes are learnt at different times and can be variable, there are patterns which they're learnt.
- Wug Test 1958 by Jean Gleason to see how kids acquire the language skill of plurals and inflectional morphemes.
- Children sometimes apply rules where they aren't required. e.g. go -ed, went-ed, see-ed.
- The learning curve suggests that kids use the correct form then make errors then learn to use the correct form again
- Children sometimes apply rules where they aren't required. e.g. go -ed, went-ed, see-ed.
- Wug Test 1958 by Jean Gleason to see how kids acquire the language skill of plurals and inflectional morphemes.
- Additive & deconstructieprocesses
- Additive- Child starts out with uninflected stem and learns to add morphological markers
- Deconstruct.- child start with complex morphological forms and only analyse internal structure much later.
- Grammatical morphemes are learnt at different times and can be variable, there are patterns which they're learnt.
- Constructed languages
- Lingua Franca is a language for people that don't share a common lanuage
- VOLAPUK was a language created by a German priest. Vocab came from English, German and French.
- As it developed, speakers wanted to introduce changes in spelling and tense system
- ESPERANTO- Created in 1887 in hopes that it would break social barriers
- Was used for international comm. It is an agglutinative language. Creator encouraged suggestions on the develop.
- It is a constructed language as it was created for a particular purpose.
- It is used today, the most widely used international auxiliary lang.
- 1,000 native speakers, 10,000 can speak fluently, 1 million can understand.
- It is used today, the most widely used international auxiliary lang.
- VOLAPUK was a language created by a German priest. Vocab came from English, German and French.
- COLANGS
- Lingua Franca is a language for people that don't share a common lanuage
- Acquisition of morphology
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