LIN232H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jean Berko Gleason, Oneword, Cooperative Principle
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A pronominal must not have an antecedent that c-commands it and its in the same clause. Presupposition is the belief implied by the use of a particular word. Discourse is the connected series of utterances produced during a conversation, a lecture, a story or some other speech. The choice of morphemes that you use has to do with old/new information. The maxim of quantity; you don"t say too little or too much of what"s required. Originally, the focus of child language acquisition was more on people"s behaviours; children learn through imitation, reinforcement, etc. The child doesn"t care about the actual structure (ex: imitation) The children doesn"t imitate the adult necessarily to acquire language. Parents don"t typically correct their child"s language; they correct the content. Child hear a sentence and use the pattern in the sentences they hear and draw conclusions of what"s going on. Children form their acquired grammar and analogy doesn"t seem to help them sometimes.
