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Child grammar

A way of learning grammar points in children's speech

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big big laddercan create noun groups with premodification
daddy gonecan inflect verb to mark past tense
trafficsuses plural inflection but non count noun treated as count noun
all day, that dog, a book, on my owncan use determiners to specify
when get biggercan inflect a noun to make the comparitive form
when get bigger want to go on my owncan use subordinate clause
I don't wantcan use auxiliary verb to form negative
we don't want go and see themcan concatenate verbs
Wendy's daddycan inflect noun to mark possessive case
I'm swimmingcan use auxiliary (be) and --ing participle to mark continuous aspect
Me do itUses object pronoun in subject position
You can sit down by meUses a modal auxiliary verb to form an invitation
Could I get some other piece of paperUses a modal auxiliary to make a request
Where he's going?Forms a question - without reversing subject and verb
Where those dogs goed?Overgeneralises regular past tense formation
You want eat?Question using rising intonation/statement word order
Let me have it (food)Can use imperative form to express instrumental function
I eating itCan mark continuous aspect with -ing particple - but without very 'to be.'
Where's the truck?Can form questions like adult model
I no playIntermediate stage of question formation


Beatrix Roudet

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