1. How do children learn language?  Bálint Gábor

2. Stages/Milestones  Cooing:1-4 months  Babbling:4-20 months  One-word:12-18 months  Two-word:18-24 months  Multi-word:24 months

3. One-word(12 months)  Dada(father enters the room)  Down(child sits down)  Door(father closes the door)  Here(child points)  Mama(child gives something  to mother)  Again(child watches lighting  of a match again)

4. Two-word(1.5-2 years)  Few function words  No morphological or syntactic markers

5. Comprehension Precedes Production  Children in this stage respond better to grammatical utterances, even though they don’t necessarily produce them.  18 months  Cookie Monster is tickling Big Bird.  *Cookie Monster can tickling Big Bird.

6.  allgone sock  hi Mommy  byebye boat  allgone sticky  more wet  it ball  Katherine sock  dirty sock  here pretty

7. Multi-Word (2-2.5 years)  sentences 3 or more words in length  few function words  few, if any, morphological or syntactic markers

8.  Cat stand up table.  What that?  He play little tune.  Andrew want that.  Cathy build house.  No sit there.  Chair broken.  Daddy like book.  What her name?  Car make noise.  Me wanna show Mommy.

9. Adult Grammar NP => Det Na pencil NP => Poss Nmy pencil Child Grammar NP => Det Det Na my pencil

10. Creative Morphology  Noun > Verb  Why didn’t you jam bread?  Why didn’t you jam my bread?  Let’s get brooming.  Creative affixation  I hate you and I’ll never unhate you ǃ

11.  Grammar Construction Hypothesis Children make systematic, not random, “errors”  Innateness Hypothesis Children learn the language of their environment naturally until puberty.

12. Questions  One/Two word Stage:Intonation, no auxiliary verb, no wh  See hole?  I ride train?  Ball go?  Sit chair?

13.  Two/Multi word Stage II: wh-word, no auxiliary verb  What he wants?  What he can ride in?  Where I should put it?  Where Ann pencil?  Why you smiling?

14.  Multiword Stage: Inversion in yes/no questions  Did Mommy pinch her finger?  Can’t you fix it?  Do I have it?  Will you help me?  Is Mommy talking to Robin’s grandmother?

15.  But not wh-questions  What I did yesterday?  Why Kitty can’t stand up?  Where I should put it?  Where I should sleep?  Why you are smiling?

16. Overgeneralization  SingularPlural  catcats  toetoes  man mans  foot foots