CDIS 3223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Milk Bottle, Problem Of Induction, Fast Mapping
28 Oct 2016
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Chapter 6 toddlerhood cont: achievements in morphology typically toddlers acquire approximately. 50 words during the ages of 18-24 months. Grammatical morphemes morphemes which change the grammar of the root word (tense, plural/singular) are acquired during this age range. Table 6. 2 on page 170 has examples of grammatical morphemes: achievements in syntax. Brown"s stages of language development these stages characterize the language milestones based on child"s ability to produce utterances of varying syntactic complexity. Sentence forms toddlers are more likely to use telegraphic utterances with omission of function words (ex. Mommy more, no juice, mommy stop) or misuse of pronouns, instead they may say (me do it, me turn). Language content - semantics: receptive lexicon words understood by toddlers, expressive lexicon words that are used or produced by the toddlers, overextension refers to toddlers" tendency to overgeneralize use of some words. Categorical overextension extended use of a word for other words that belong to the same category. (ex.
