Grammar

Question 1

What do syntactical advances allow children to do?

Answer 1

• order words into phrases and clauses

- make different types of utterances for different functions

Question 2

what do morphological advances allow children to do?

Answer 2

• add inflections to words creating tense, marking distinctions between adjectives , showing possession and making plurals
• experiment with language by adding prefixes and suffixes to make up words and to convert words from one word class to another

Question 3

What are the 4 stages of children’s grammatical development?

Answer 3

1) One-word/holophrastic (12-18 months)
2) Two word (18-24 months)
3) Telegraphic (24-36 months)
4) Post-telegraphic (36+ months)

Question 4

At what stages is intonation introduced in children’s speech?

Answer 4

One and two-word

Question 5

At what stages are question words introduced in children’s speech and in what order?

Answer 5

• telegraphic and post-telegraphic

1) what
2) where
3) why
4) when

Question 6

What are Bellugi’s 3 stages of negative formations in young children?

Answer 6

1) use ‘no’ or ‘not’ at the beginning or end of a sentence
2) moves ‘no’ or ‘not’ inside the sentence
3) attaches the negative to auxiliary verbs and the copula verb ‘be’ securely

Question 7

What are Bellugi’s 3 stages?

Answer 7

1) the child uses their own name
2) the child recognises the I/me pronouns and that they’re used in different places within a sentence
3) the child uses them according to whether they’re in the subject or object position within a sentence