Development Of Grammar

Question 1

9 - 12 months

Answer 1

First words
Usually proto words
Usually nouns

Question 2

Katherine Nelson (1973)

Answer 2

Found that around 60% of the first 50 words of a child are nouns
8% are social words

Question 3

9 - 18 months

Answer 3

Holophrastic Stage
Holophrases

Question 4

18 - 24 months

Answer 4

Two-word stage
Begins producing utterances that uses words in combination
Often a subject + verb
(e.g. ‘mummy come’)

Question 5

24 - 36 months

Answer 5

Telegraphic Stage
Generally characterised by the omission of auxiliary verbs and determiners with a focus on lexical essentials
(e.g. ‘Daddy get milk’ and ‘Ben feed ducks’)

Question 6

36 months

Answer 6

Post-Telegraphic Stage
Words expand to include auxiliaries, prepositions and articles
(e.g. from ‘Mummy car’ to ‘Mummy is in the car’)
Over-generalisation

Question 7

Define Infelctions

Answer 7

An ending such as ‘-ed’, ‘-s’ or ‘-ing’ added to change a tense or number

Question 8

Define Over-Generalisation

Answer 8

The over application of rules about the formation of words