LING 350 Lecture 6: Syntactic Development
28 Feb 2019
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Early speech is telegraphic speech - speech that omits function words or grammatical morphemes. E. g. sit chair vs. sit on the chair. Telegraphic speech also seen in newspaper headlines, text messages, etc. Researchers count the number of morphemes in the child"s utterances. We expect that as age increases, so does the average number of morphemes used by the child. Reminder that morphemes is the smallest element of meaning in speech. For next week: talk about how this differs for other languages. Free morphemes: these are words on their own. Bound morphemes: prefixes and suffixes; words that cannot stand on their own. In an ideal situation, an observer watches a child interact with someone else where dialogue is used; they pick out 100 utterances that are completely intelligible and transcribe the interaction. Do count: free and bound morphemes both count as a morpheme by the mlu measure. Reduplications count as one (e. g. choo choo)
