Linguistics 1028A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Word Formation, Oneword, Reflexive Pronoun

• School: Western University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: Linguistics 1028A/B
• Professor: Stephanie Kelly

Document Summary

Morphological development: acquisition of morphology, children learn the regular rules (patterns that operate more generally/applied all the time) before the irregular, apply regular rules to new words, e. g. Wug test: shown a picture of a wug. This is a wug : then shown a picture of 2 wugs. There are 2 ________ : shows how children can apply the rules of their language even to nonsense words, children can apply general rules, ex. plural formation. Inflectional: doesn"t change meaning, changes the tense, adds grammatical info, ex. plural or past tense addition. Derivational: makes new words, changes meaning, addition to a root word. Developmental sequence: development of bound morphemes & functional categories, takes place in an orderly fashion. Ing, -s (pl), - s (possessive), the/a, -ed, -s (3rd person sing), be: neither frequency (in adult speech) by itself nor pronunciation along explains developmental order the/a, -ing, -s (pl), be, - s (possessive), -s (3rd person sing), -ed.