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1
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Productivity or generativity

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We can produce – or generate – sentences that we have never heard before

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Syntax

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The part of the grammar that tells you how words can be combined and ordered.

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Hierarchical structure

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Rules organize words into a hierarchical structure

> Sentence –> Noun phrase + Verb phrase

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Open class (content) words

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Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives

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Closed class (function) words

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Auxiliaries: can, do, will
Prepositions: in, below, of
Determiners: the, those, an
Complementizers: that, which, who

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Morpheme

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smallest meaningful unit in a language

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Derivational morphemes

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bound morphemes that change the meaning or class of a word.

> e.g.: run+ER –> runner changing the verb run into the noun runner.

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Inflectional morphemes

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Bound morphemes that serve grammatical functions (changes in meaning are minimal).

> e.g. plurals, tense (catS, workED)

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Vertical constructions

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sequence of one word sentences

10
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Telegraphic speech

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speech sounds like a telegraph message. (composed almost exclusively of open-class content words).

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Negation

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serves a crucial semantic function

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Yes/No questions

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Is Suzy home?

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WH- questions

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What, when, where, why, who, how.

Where’s Suzy?

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Passives

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-Emphasis on the object of the verb.
-De-emphasize the agent of action
“My can got run over”

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Complex sentences

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more than one clause.

> Mary came and John left.

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MLU

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Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) : Measured in terms of words or morphemes.

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Response strategies

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guess the intended meaning of a sentence