LING 3P61 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pragmatics, 18 Months, Language Change
19 Mar 2018
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There are predictable patterns to language acquisition but still individual variability. Child must recognize and produce 44 different consonant and vowel sounds and how they can and cannot be combined (phonotactic constraints) Combining units of linguistic meaning to create words. Child must learn how morphemes can be combined (ex plurals, prefixes, suffixes and root words) and how they change the meaning of words. Child must learn rules for sentence structure and what different word orders mean. Child must learn to produce and understand tens of thousands of words and know how words relate to each other. How to combine sentences in order to have conversation. How to speak appropriately to peers and teachers. Say at least 18 words their parents will understand. Look to see where a noise is coming from. Increase in vocabulary size (up to 500 words) Communicate more often and for a greater variety of purposes (protest, greeting, requests, labelling things etc)
