LING 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter Sapir 3: Blackboard
16 Jan 2018
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It is evident that the acquisition of language is more than storing up rehearsed utterances, since we can say what we have not practiced or heard before. 1000 most frequent words in rst graders vocabulary were taken from rinslands listing. This listing contains elementary schools most common vocabulary taken from conversations. Productive allomorphs of plural, possessive and third person are phonologically conditioned and identical. S ~ -z ~ -ez (glasses, hops, bids) T ~ -d ~ -ed (melted, stopped, climbed) : past tense. Summary of experiment: showed pictures with make up words to 4-7 year olds (28 boys, 28 girls) where they had to. Ll in the blank plurals : example, this is a wug, now there is two, therefore there are two. _____ : boys and girls performance was equal, first graders did signi cantly better than preschoolers. Identity: blackboard is black because it is a blackboard .
