Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Grammatical
Development
1 - Syntax
- Syntax
development
- Syntactical
development
- Development of child's
ability to create grammatical
constructions by arranging
words in an appropriate
order
- One word
stage
- 12 - 18
months
- Child speaks in
single word
utterances
- 'Milk',
'Mummy'
- Groups of
words may be
used as a single
unit
- 'Allgone'
- In many sits
words simple
serve a naming
function
- Holophrases
- Single words or
phrases that
convey more
complex messages
- Holophrases
- 'Juice' = 'I want
some juice' /
'I've spilt some
juice'
- Context,
gesture &
intonation
- Enable parent /
carer to
understand what
child means
- Understanding
- Although child's
utterings limited
understanding of
syntax is
(predictability) more
advanced
- Evidence
- Children at 1
word stage can
respond to
instructions
- 'Kiss
mummy'
- Two
Word
Stage
- 18
months
- 2 word
utterances
begin to
appear
- Usually
grammatically
correct
sequence
- Common
construction
- S + V
''Daddy
sleep'
- V + C
'Draw
birdie'
- S + O
'Suzy
Juice'
- S + C
'Daddy
busy'
- Complement
- When repeating
an adult, children
commonly omit
elements, but
retain the correct
order
- Look, Ben's
playing in the
garden = Play
garden
- Utterances
focus on
key words
- Grammatical
function
words
- Commonly
omitted (As
they carry
less info)
- Meanings -
Two- word
utterances
- Range
complex
meanings
expressed
- Possession
'Mummy
car'
- Action
'Paul eat'
- Location
'Teddy bed'
- Bloom
1973
- 'Mummy
sock'
- Ambiguity
- Scope for ambiguity
at stage arises bcs of
omission of
inflectional affixes
- Commonly
possessive &
plural 's' & past
tense 'ed' absent
- Telegraphic
stage
- Age
2
- 3 & 4 Word
utterances
begin to be
produced
- Some will be
grammatically
complete
- S + V
+ O
- 'Lucy
likes
tea'
- S + V
+ C
- 'Teddy
is tired'
- S + V
+ A
- 'Mummy
sleeps
upstairs'
- Other utterances
will have
grammatical
elements
- 'Daddy
home
now'
- 'Where
Josh
going?'
- Like a telegram
they include key
words but omit
elements such as
- Determiners
- Auxiliary
verbs
- Prepositions
- Wider range of
structures will
be used
- Qs
(Interrogatives)
- Commands
(imperatives)
- Simple
statements