developing grammar Flashcards
what is a free morpheme
a word that can stand alone as an independant word
- apple
what is a bound morpheme
a word that cannot stand alone as an independant word but must be attached to another morpheme/word
- affixes such as the plural “-s”
what is inflectional morphology
the alteration of words to make new grammatical forms
- adding inflictions to words creating tense, grading adjectives, showing possession, making plurals
what is derivational morphology
the creation of new words by adding prefixes and suffixes
what are the 4 main stages of lexical and grammatical development
- one word/holophrastic = 12-18m
- two word = 18-24m
- telegraphic = 24-36m
- post-telegaphic = 24-36m
what happens in the one word/holophrastic stage with the age this happens in
- one word utterances
- holophrase has pragmatic meaning
- 12-18m
what happens in the two word stage with the age this happens in
- two words combined to create simple syntactical structures
- SV or VO
- 18-24m
what happens in the telegraphic stage with the age this happens in
- three or more words joined in increasingly complex and accurate orders
- SVO, SVC, SVA
- 24-36m
what happens in the post telegraphic stage with the age this happens in
- increasing awareness of grammatical rules and irregularities
- virtuous errors - sayong runned instead of ran
- 36+ m
what are the 10 meaning relations according to roger brown
- agent + action
- agent + affected
- entity + attribute
- action + affected
- action + location
- entity + location
- possessor + possession
- nomination - labelling an object
- recurrence - repeated event - “more ball”
- negation - denial - “no ball”
what are ursula bellugis three stages of negative formation in the telegraphic stage
1) uses “no” or “not” at the start or end of a sentance
2) moves “no/not” inside the sentance
3) attaches the negative to auxilary verbs and the copula verb “be” securely
what are ursula bellugis 3 stages of pronoun development in the telegraphic stage
- child uses their own name
- child uses “i/me” pronouns and that these are used in different places in a sentance
- child uses them according to if they are in the S or O position in a sentance
what is overgeneralisation
- extension of a words meaning or grammatical rule beyond its normal use
what is a virtuous error
syntactical errors made by young children when the non standard utterance reveals some understanding
- runned for i ran
