CHILD GRAMMAR
المؤلف:
John Field
المصدر:
Psycholinguistics
الجزء والصفحة:
P55
2025-08-05
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CHILD GRAMMAR
The notion that the grammar of a language-acquiring infant may have its own internal consistency; and that we should approach it on its own terms rather than by reference to the norms of adult grammar.
Syntactic analysis of the infant’s early two-word utterances (Example more nut, two sock represented as ‘NP! modifier þ N’) was found to be insufficiently informative. Researchers therefore argued for a richer interpretation using semantic criteria. It was concluded that three language functions predominated in the earliest two-word utterances:
nomination (naming), using nouns and deictic terms (THIS, HERE) already used singly;
recurrence, expressed by terms such as MORE, ANOTHER;
non-existence, expressed by terms such as ALLGONE, NO.
Syntactic patterns in the latter two-word utterances were sub-classified to show the semantic relationships involved. For example, ‘Modifier þ Head’ could be interpreted as attributive (‘big doggie’), possessive (‘Daddy shoe’) or recurrent (‘more up’).
See also: Syntactic development
Further reading: Bloom (1973); Brown (1973)
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