Definition:

The acquisition schedule

Zulbely:

1.- No copular verb (Tommy tall).

2.- Generalization of copular (is for every single copular.

3.- Be+progressive.

4.- Be+location.

5.- Be+ adjectives of condition.

Pre-language stages

Patricia

Knowledge of grammar develops by stages; some might overlap for a short time and the transition between them occurs in a sudden way.

Stages:

• Babbling Stage (6 months): children begin to develop their articulatory movements needed to produce the speech spunds of their language.
• Holophrastic Stage (12-18 months): also known as one-word stage, children begin to use the same string of sounds repeatedly to mean the same thing.
• Multi word Stage (2-3 years): children begin producing a large number of multiple-word utterances. This is the stage known as "Telegraphic Stage" or "Telegraphic Speech".

Holophrastic (one word) stage

Virclaisa

• Concept:

   

Holophrastic is a word that expresses in one word an entire sentence or phrase. For example aboriginal languages in America. In other words Holophrastic could be considered a complex of ideas represented in a single word or in a fixed phrase.

• Characteristic:      

   

1. Polysynthetic.
2. Of or relating to the stage of child language development characterized by the use of single-word utterances.

    

3. The Holophrastic Sentence. The words that the child is generating during this period are more than simple referent-symbol relationships.

    

    It very important to mention that words within holophrastic not shown as it has more than seven letters.

Telegraphic speech

Patricia

Early Speech of Children ---}Lacks inflections & function words

Stages:

Early Stage: one-word utterance

Later Stage: 2-word utterance

Features:

• In these stages since utterances are so reduced, context & situation are deteminant for understanding the message. 
• Children use language creatively.

Representatives:

Lois Bloom: 2-noun sentences express relationship of conjuction, decription, possesion, location, agent-object.

Dan Slobin's Communicative Functions

1. Locating & Naming
2. Demanding & Desiring
3. Negating
4. Describing an event or situation
5. Indicating Possession
6. Describing a person or thing
7. Questioning

Halliday's Communicative Functions

1. Instrumental Function-----} To get what he wants
2. Regulatory Function-----} To control other people's behaviour

Morphology (overgeneralization)

Adrian

    Morphology is a branch of linguistics that deals with the form and structure of words without consideration of function.

Is concerned with how phonemes are combined by language into larger units.

a-      Word-formation processes:

-          Borrowing

-          Compounding

-          Derivation

-          Coinage

-          Back-formation

-          Clipping

-          Blending

-          Conversion

-          Use of acronyms

b-      The internal structure of words

-          The morpheme

-          Allomorphs

Questions

 Virclaisa

     There is a predictable order in which children learn to form questions and using 'wh- words. For wh-words the first they learn is “What”, then they use Where and Who, after that around the end of the second year Why emerges, and finally When and How.

•     Stage 1

   

    Children use single words or simple two- or three-word sentences with rising intonation.

•     Stage 2

   

    Children begin to use declarative sentence with 'yes/no' questions, they simply add rising intonation.

•     Stage3

   

    Children may generalize that all questions are formed by putting a verb at the beginning of a sentence.

•     Stage 4

   

    Children begin to use subject-auxiliary inversion and can even add 'do'.

•     Stage 5

   

    Children eventually combine inversion in yes/no question and wh-questions.

•     Stage 6

   

    Finally, wh- words appear in subordinate clauses or embedded questions