The Grammar of the two-word stage
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- Created on: 14-12-20 19:04
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- The Grammar of the two-word stage
- 18 months old
- Grammatically these two words will be in the correct syntactic sequence although full grammatical competence will be missing.
- Subject and verb sequence: "Daddy Catch" (Daddy catch the ball)
- Verb and object sequence: "Walk Stairs" (Walk up/down the stairs)
- Subject and object sequence: "Mummy chair" (Mummy sit on the chair)
- Subject and complement: "Baby nice" (the baby is nice)
- Halliday
- Sees a child as learning language for it's functions.
- So the child is highly motivated to reach out to the world/ environment to get its needs met/use the functions
- Halliday's 7 functions
- 1. Heuristic function (e.g. Ask something)
- 2. Personal function: express feelings (e.g. show individuality)
- 3. Interactional function (e.g. to build relationships)
- 4. Instrumental function (e.g. to persuade people)
- 5. Imaginative function (e.g. convey ideas/ thoughts)
- 6. Representational function (e.g. to tell people something/inform)
- 7. Regulatory function (e.g. to persuade people)
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