Grammar Flashcards
(19 cards)
What stages are important for grammatical development?
Two-word stage, telegraphic, post-telegraphic
What are the two aspects to grammar?
Syntax and morphology
What is syntax?
Syntax involves word order and combining words into sentence structures - put together in predictable order
Example of word order:
“colourless green ideas sleep furiously” = subject+verb+adverbial
What is morphology?
Morphology involves word structures
Examples of morphology:
colour+less, idea+s, furious+ly
Order of the linguistic rank scale:
Morpheme, word, phrase, clause, sentence, text
How does “I eating” split into 3 morphemes?
“I - eat - ing”
What is the free morpheme in “I eating”?
“Eat” is the free morpheme that carries the main lexical meaning and the -ing bound morpheme indicates the progressive tense
what happens grammatically in two word phase?
In this stage, syntax develops and the child is likely to combine words in different patterns to create mini sentences
What did Brown (1973) find?
Brown noted that many two word utterances fit into common patterns - one word being the doer and the other being what is done
What is an example from Brown’s findings?
“I walk” “Mummy eat”
How is the two word stage similar to the holophrastic stage?
Many of the two word utterances have more wider meanings that the child is unable to express
What did Braine (1963) find?
Braine found that in the two word stage, children use patters of two word utterances that revolve around certain keywords - This is known as pivot schema
How does pivot schema work?
‘Pivot’ words are combined with ‘slots’ to create a two word expression
Example of pivot schema:
“allgone” is a pivot word that can be combined with “allgone dinner, milk, mummy…” ect.
What happens grammatically in the telegraphic stage
Children add more words to their utterances but often ommit less meaningful grammatical words such as auxillary verbs - function words
What happens whilst the child is moving through the telegraphic stage?
The child will start to manipulate the typical sentence structure used in declaratives to form questions and make ideas negative
