JLP315H1 Lecture Notes - Oneword, 18 Months, Lexical Item
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Development of more complex utterances more than one word, more complex words, functional words, grammatical marking. Order the utterances from earliest to most recent in child"s development. C is earliest sentence use intonation to convey question. Determiners and pronouns the and you in a and b more grammatical functional elements. C more early because has to do with ritualized behaviour like food. Can auxillary word that requires some theory of mind expected to be late talking about another person can is the first of these kinds of words to appear. B conditional clause if an event, then this. D talking about impossible things involves more abstract thinking ability to deal with probabilities, consequences. Early collocations, which are two words the child says but we"re not sure how the child is using them. Subject and verb or verb and object of verb are typical collocations when verb is present.
