Week 9 - First Language Acquisition

Methodology

• Diary studies
• Questionnaires and Checklists
• Corpus studies eg. CHILDES
• Experimental research eg. act out tasks

Areas of Development

• Phonological - Recognition of sounds, Recognition of word boundaries, Production of combinations of sounds
• Common patterns: Ommision of sounds and syllables. Unstressed and weak syllables
• Substitution of one sound class with another eg. fronting sounds, epenthesis

Semantic

• Overextensions = Use of word…