CLA - grammatical development Flashcards
1
Q
who recognised three stages of inflection acquisition
A
Cruttenden (1970)
2
Q
what is an inflection
A
process by which words, or phrases, are marked for certain grammatical features
3
Q
what is stage 1 of inflection acquisition
A
children memorise words on an individual basis
4
Q
what is stage 2 of inflection acquisition
A
children show awareness of the general rules of inflections but over-generalisation is prone to occur
5
Q
what is stage 3 of inflection acquisition
A
correct inflections are used
6
Q
what are virtuous errors
A
mistakes made by children when they get their grammar wrong but followed a logical route to this
7
Q
example of virtuous errors
A
‘I goed to the cinema’
8
Q
what is over-generalisation
A
process of which a child applied a rule they learnt, but applies it to widely
