Toward a Grammar of Child Language. Studies in Language Education, Report No. 12.

Autor/in	O'Donnell, Roy C.
Institution	Georgia Univ., Athens. Dept. of Language Education.
Titel	Toward a Grammar of Child Language. Studies in Language Education, Report No. 12.
Quelle	(1974), (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Child Language; Language Acquisition; Language Research; Preschool Education; Semantics; Sentence Structure; Structural Grammar + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Sprachforschung; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Semantik; Satzbau; Satzstruktur
Abstract	A study by Brown and Fraser (1963) shows that children tend to use telegraphic speech, employing content and omitting function words. This limitation involves the grammatical or semantic complexity of the sentences. Braine (1963) attempted to formulate productive rules for the initial stages in the acquisition of syntax by identifying two classes of words: pivots and X-words. Schlesinger (1971) describes semantic structure as beginning with the speaker's intention to express something. This intention is preverbal, composed of conceptions and relations rather than morphemes or words. O'Donnell (1974) approaches child grammar through an adult grammar capable of describing both semantic and syntactic structure. Incorporating the ideas drawn from previous studies, he believes the differences between child and adult language can be accounted for by both the cognitive differences and the lack of development of the expressive component. It is concluded that recognition of the fundamental importance of role in descriptions of semantic structures can make possible further movement toward a satisfactory grammar of child language. (TS)
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Update	2004/1/01