LING 3210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Language Acquisition, Behaviorism, Sociolinguistics
11 Dec 2014
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Morphology: system for combing units of meaning. Syntax: system for combining words into a sentence. Pragmatics: the knowledge that underlies the use of language to serve communicative functions. Sociolinguistics: the knowledge that allows the socially appropriate use of language. From birth to year 1 children change in the communicativeness of their behavior and in the repertoire of sounds they produce. Understand a few words by 8-10 months. Children began to produce speech at about 1 year. The most obvious development is in the domain of vocabulary in the 2nd year. Children begin year 2 but producing their first word. Children end year 2 by having a productive vocabulary of about 300 words. Articulation abilities and underlying phonological representations undergo. Also producing word combinations. changes during second year. Become more communicative. (both the frequency and the conversational relevance of their communicative acts increase. ) By the 3rd year the most obvious development is children"s increasingly mastery of the grammar of their language.
