SPTH1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sentence Processing, Present Continuous, Bound And Unbound Morphemes

• School: University of Newcastle
• Department: Speech Pathology
• Course: SPTH1001
• Professor: Joanne Walters

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Characteristics of first words: nouns predominate in first 50 words (bates et. Increase after 100 words (i. e. 2 word stage) 20 mth olds understand meaning distinction among some word categories. Modifiers e. g. down, gone etc 2 word stage. (cid:862)true(cid:863) (cid:448)er(cid:271)s e. g. eat, play occur later (see owens, 2012 p. 223) 2 word combinations: described as semantic-syntactic (more next lecture) It is unknown exactly how children acquire grammar: sentence processing more than just storing sequences of words, syntactic pattern, grammatical cues, pragmatic cues. Bilingual language development (0wens, 2016: simultaneous acquisition, comparable rates of development in both languages compared to monolingual speakers. Little difference in size & diversity of lexicon. Separate language systems in early acquisition phase: complex process of separation of languages (phonology, syntax) over time, may shift to dominant language over time, order of acquisition of morphemes may vary (demuth et. al, 2015 in mcleod & Brow(cid:374)"s stages of language development (see mcleod & mccormack, 2015, p. 243)