LIN 3716 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Part Of Speech, Deixis
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Child is moving from 1 to 2 word utterances with approximately 50 word expressive vocabularies. Child follows word order rules to convey meaning: Brown described these as: agent + action. Play ball drink juice: agent + object. Kitty bed baby baba: entity + attribute doggie funny, possessor + possession daddy shoe, recurrence, nonexistence more yum yum (again)(over) all gone, demonstrative + entity that baby, entity + locative baby bed, action + locative go bye bye. Baby down = entity + locative, agent + action. Hug baby baby is holding a doll = action + object. Telegraphic speech: child employs predominately open class/content words. Open-class content words are words that contain salient features and include: nous/pronouns, verbs (action, adjectives (description) Examples include: baby down, mommy shoes, stop that, bye-bye tracie, push that, hug baby, baby sleep. Closed class or function words are usually omitted in telegraphic speech. These include: prepositions, conjunctions, articles, advanced pronouns, auxiliaries and copulas.
