The Two-word Stage Flashcards
1
Q
What age does the Two-word Stage apply to?
A
18-24 months
2
Q
What is the key info of the Two-word Stage?
A
- vocab explosion, crucial grammar emerges
- emerging recognition of some syntactic relationship between 2 words being uttered
- content words convey essential info and meaning
- C words usually accurately positioned
- Grammatical words come later
3
Q
What is a content words?
A
a word within a sentence that is vital to convey meaning
4
Q
What is a grammatical word?
A
words within a sentence that are needed in order to indicate the relationship between content words
5
Q
Key research
BROWN
A
- focused on 3 American children and their grammatical development
- identified syntactic structures of 2 word utterances
- analyse the function of one word to another
- suggested combinations of words placed together follow a limited range of functions
6
Q
What type of study did BROWN conduct?
A
Longitudinal
7
Q
What were the some of the combinations BROWN identified?
A
- agent n action
- action n object
- action n location
- object n attribute
