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Vocabulary growth involves more than just the acquisition of new words..
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kids refine meanings of established words
("Cool" goes from temperature to describing a friend) |
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Vocabulary growth does not continue at same furious rate as preschooler's...
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but it does continue throughout life
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Myth:
Older people ... |
lose vocabulary. May not be able to retrieve words as quickly as before but they don't lose words
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Children begin to combine words between
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18 mos -2 years
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Generativity of language
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capacity to understand and produce an infiite number of novel sentences.
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Knowledge of language is not a knowledge of a list of sentences in which to select as the occasion demands, rather...
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it is the knowledge of a system that allows a speaker to produce an infinite number of differnt sentences from a finite inventory of words
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Syntax
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the component of grammar that governs the ordering of words in a sentence
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The order of words can change the meaning such as
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John kissed Mary vs
Mary kissed John |
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Morphology
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the study of the smallest unit of meaning
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