LING 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Single Parent, Subcategorization, Metalinguistic Awareness
11 Oct 2017
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The mental lexicon: an adult like you knows more than 100 000 words, what does this include, pronunciation (phonology, meaning (semantics) Information for the grammar (syntactic class and other markers) Referential use: alongside context-bound words, children also use some words referentially, for english, object names (nouns) tend to be acquired early, context-bound words eventually become decontextualized used more flexibly and referentially (possibly through more extensive input/experience) Child(cid:396)e(cid:374) do (cid:374)ot ha(cid:448)e a se(cid:374)se of logi(cid:272)al (cid:374)egatio(cid:374), the(cid:455) use (cid:858)(cid:374)o(cid:859) to (cid:396)efuse so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g, a fo(cid:396)(cid:373) of protest. What does their vocabulary look like: reflects their experiences, many nouns for objects familiar to children (toys, bottles, etc. , words common for childhood routines (bye-bye) usually social words. Look for comparison between the use of individual words vs. sentences (frequency of verbs). Could also look at the types of questions parents pose to their kids.
