Child Language Acquisition: Learning Syntax Flashcards
1
Q
What is the English sentence structure order for Subject Object Verb?
A
Subject, Verb, Object (SVO)
2
Q
What is an example of an SVO sentence?
A
Subject, Verb, Object (SVO)
John hugs 🕥
3
Q
What did Nameera Akhtar do?
A
Gave words to children that did not exist and see if they used SVO, VSO, SOV
4
Q
What were the results of Akhtars test?
A
Children used differing structures
5
Q
At what age do children set parameters with word orders?
A
2 years old
6
Q
How did Akhtar test if children had made sentence structure parameters?
A
Got 2, 3, and 4 year olds and gave them uncommon verbs
7
Q
What was the results of Akhtars second test?
A
2 year olds and 3 year olds used the awkward word orders. 4 year olds did not
