THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE .

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For the vast majority of children, no one
provides any instruction on how to speak the
language, the child is not being taught the
language. Children actively construct, from
what’s said to them, possible ways of using the
language and test whether they work or not. It’s
impossible to say that the child is acquiring the
language through a process of consistently
imitating adult speech in parrot-fashion. Adults
simply don’t produce many of the types of
expressions which turn up in children’s speech.

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- They may repeat single word or phrases but not
the sentence structure.
- Example :
The dogs are hungry - dog hungry .
- It’s likely that children understand what adults
are saying in this example. They just have there
own way of expressing what they understand.

4. LEARNING THROUGH CORRECTION

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By the time a child is two-and-a-half years old ,
he or she is going beyond tele-graphic speech
forms and incorporating some of the inflectional
morphemes that indicate the grammatical
function of the nouns and verbs used. The first to
appear is usually the –ing form in expression such
as cat sitting and mommy reading book.

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- In acquisition, using an inflectional morpheme
on more words than is usual in the
language.
- E.g ( two foots).

7. - At about the same time ,different forms of the verb ‘to be’
such as are and was, begin to be used. The appearance of
forms such as was and , at about the same time, went and
came should be noted.
- They do typically precede the appearance of the – ed
inflection.
- Regular past tens forms:
E.g ( walked , played)
- The irregular forms may disappear for a while, replaced by
overgeneralized versions such as goed and comed
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-Formation of questions.
-The use of negatives.
There appear to be three identifiable stages.
•Stage 1 occurs between 18 and 26 months
•Stage 2 occurs between 22 and 30 months
•Stage 3 occurs between 24 and 40 months

10. :The 1st stage
1. Simply add a Wh-form (Where, Who) to the beginning of
the expression
-Where kitty?
-Where horse go?
2. Utter the expression with a rise in intonation towards the
end
- Sit chair?
Doggie?-

11. The 2nd stage:
1. More complex expressions can be formed
2. rising intonation strategy continues to be used
-You want eat?
-See my doggie?
3. More Wh-forms come into use
-What book name?
-Why you smiling?

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*Hasna Tafaf Al-Zahrani, ID: 3601012.
*Huda Mahela, ID: 3605048.
*Samyah Al-Ghamdi, ID: 3601030.
*Bedoor Al-Moullad, ID: 3601014.
*Dareen Muqeem, ID: 3601142.