Thursday, 26 September 2013

Child Language Acquisition

Hello Linguists!

Read the utterances below which are taken from children of different ages. Post a piece of writing on your blog explaining what the data reveals about the language abilities of the different children and discuss how their ability develops between the different stages.

You need to use all you have learnt over the past few lessons and focus on both lexical and grammatical development.

15 months:

  • Bye Mummy
  • Isee
  • Allgone
20 months:

  • All fall down
  • Teddy tired
  • Gone, where Mummy gone?
  • More juice
28 months

  • Teddy's hat came off
  • Harry's got a big, big green truck
36 months

  • Little Luke hit me, he did
  • I am going to see Harriet another day tomorrow
  • I don't like faces, I want to see children's ITV
40 months

  • Look at my knee. I felled over in the playground
  • Once upon a time there was a little girl and she got beautiful hair and then the monster killed her and then she got dead and then and then the beautiful fairy came and made them better again
Happy analysing and good luck!

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