LIN 3716 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Language Development, Pragmatics, Alliteration
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Language development is dramatically influenced by formal schooling: routine develops increase in organizational skills, sequencing skills, vocabulary exposure, child is required to follow multi-step directions in a group setting with increased distance. Language evolves to writing and reading: pre-literary skills increase in complexity to literacy skills, social language skills incorporate group discussion. Child is developing the understanding that objects and situations have multiple attributes rather than single dimensions. a1. a2. a3. Two items can be the same by size, or by color, or by category. Sprinkling and raining may be describing the same weather. Anecdotal the majority of narratives produced by 5-6 years old are based on their own personal experiences. Stories tend to ramble on and are not particularly concise. Cohesion is accomplished with continuous connections of clause employing, and then and then . The lines of reality between real and imaginary storytelling are not initially established.
