PSY315H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Syntactic Category, Syntactic Ambiguity, English Plurals
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With morphology: the dog sprinted between the cars: mean length utterance (mlu): counting units child puts together, used to measure child"s development of morphology and syntax, example: dog, can be said as dogs or the dogs . The more often one is exposed to certain morphemes the more likely we will produce them. But: word the is frequently used but is 8th on list: identifyability/stability of morpheme. To what degree does the morpheme look the same across different contexts. Example: plural s is unstable: cats makes an s sound while in dogs it makes z sound. Ing, in and on are stable and appear early on list: number of semantic distinction method. Plural s has very simple meaning, multiple. The does not have on fixed meaning. 3rd person present tense codes both 3rd person and the tense being spoken, more complex. They showed when words end in quiet consonants, they add s.
