LING 3P61 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Present Continuous, Relative Pronoun, Contractible Space
15 Jan 2016
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Lecture 7: learning the structure of language 1: production. Syntax: putting words together in sentences and understanding that different word orders contribute to different meanings. Morphology: learning to put inflections on words that alter their meaning and learning the meaning of inflections. I don"t want the blocks. (look to produce negative statements, questions) I don"t want the blocks that are red. (can produce sentences that contain relative clauses) Transition from one word speech: vertical constructions. A single word utterance that builds on the one before. It"s string of related words but its not a multi word utterance because: Falling intonation of single words line to not credit the child for a multi word utterance. Reason its called a vertical construction, you"d right ow. Me each word on a separate: word chunks: multiword phrases that they"ve learned as a whole unit, jargon + word combinations: producing an incomprehensible string of babble with a true word advancing abilities.
