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Language Features (Negatives (Gestures and facial expressions used early…
Language Features
Negatives
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Age 3: more precision with modal verbs so negatives will be integrated within sentences of standard syntax
Age 4 and above: the child will start to understand more subtle forms of negative construction (‘We can do that tomorrow’)
Questions
Intonation with rising inflection (around 18 months, during two- word stage) > ‘Mummy here?’
Questions words- what/ where/ why/ how/ who (in second year) > ‘Why Ben go?’
Although these utterances are recognizable as questions, they are telegraphic; auxiliary verbs are often omitted.
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Terminology
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Receptive vocabulary - the words a person recognises/understands and is likely to be larger than their productive vocabulary.
Overextension - widening the meaning of a word so that it extends to apply not just to the actual object but also to other objects with similar properties or functions.
Inflections
When the morphology of a word is changed to make a new grammatical form (an ending such as -ed, -s, or -ing added to change a tense or number, or to make a plural.
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