AO1

Question 1

Analogical Over-Extension

Answer 1

Child makes connections between items as they have similar characteristics, not because they’re the same category of item

E.g. Dog, Teddy, Cat all referred to as ‘Teddy’ because they’re fluffy

Question 2

Categorical Over-Extension

Answer 2

Child applies same words for all items within a category, even if different characteristics

E.g. ‘Orange’ for any fruit

Question 3

Under-extension

Answer 3

Using a word in a limited way which doesn’t recognise its full meaning

E.g. a child only uses “milk” to describe milk in a particular cup, not out of the carton or other containers

Question 4

Diminutive

Answer 4

Adding suffix to make word easier to say e.g. ‘doggie’

Question 5

Inflections

Answer 5

Regular-
Walk, Walked, Walking

Irregular-
Go, Went, Goes

*Often causes virtuous errors as children over extend grammatical rules of regular inflections onto irregular ones

Question 6

Reduplicated words

Answer 6

‘bye bye’ ‘moo moo’

Question 7

Recasting

Answer 7

Correction of virtual error after children has said one

Question 8

IRF Cycles

Answer 8

Initiation-Response-Feedback

Question 9

Traditional Roles

Answer 9

Link any data to how child is learning traditional roles e.g. how a woman should ‘act’ in society etc…

Link if doing an activity that an adult would do? How is this preparing them for gender roles?

Question 10

Virtous Error

Answer 10

Accidental errors children make in utterances