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Child Language Acquisition: Syntax and Morphology
Consider the following examples of children?s speech (from Clark 1995):
[playing with a toy lawnmower] ?I?m lawning.?
[pretending to be superman] ?I?m supermanning.?
[realizing his father was joking] ?Daddy, you joked me.?
[of food on his plate] ?I?m gonna fork this.?
A.Describe and name the error illustrated by all of these utterances (an error in the
sense that the children?s use of certain words is different from typica
l adult use).
B. Despite the error, what do these examples demonstrate that the children already know about English, in order to use it creatively? A. These utterances portray the grammatical difficulties children encounter trying to build their
language so as to communicate. Children naturally imitate their seniors but the kind of speeches… After working on your question, I… View the full answer

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