PSY374H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Metalinguistic Awareness
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Grammatical morphemes they are absent in children"s early word combinations children initially use word order to convey meaning but as their mean length of utterances in morphemes (mlu) approaches 2. 5, morphemes such as the past tense and plural inflections and prepositions such as in and on begin to appear young children tend to use content words and omit function words. 2. the order in which children acquire these grammatical morphemes was similar across different children a form of the word be semantic complexity complexity of the ideas expressed (conceptual) syntactic complexity complexity of the expression used to convey the idea (formal) Productivity in morphology overregularization (cid:224) the child"s use of a regular morpheme in a word that is irregular, such as the past tense morpheme in breaked and goed. acquisition of irregular words typically goes through three stages the child used the word correctly the child overregularizes the word the irregular form appears two theories about how children acquire overregularizations:
