Learning the Structure of Sentences
10 important questions on Learning the Structure of Sentences
What are typical 1-word utterances?
The stage after one-word utterances is the two-word utterance stage. How does that sound?
How do you know that children really can talk with two-word utterances rather than thinking it is one word?
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Why can we generate a limitless set of possible sentences?
What are the building blocks of sentences?
How do you recognize constituents?
- a break between constituents often sound natural (more so than within one)
What are the different types of constituents?
- verb phrases (see)
- prepositional phrases (into the station) --> take different functions: can be locations, manner of something, instrument… depends on the sentence.
What is the notion that there are fixed rules for combining units of language in terms of their form that result in fixed meaning relationships between the words that are joined together?
A part of learning about the syntax of words, might involve specific knowledge of a given verb's combination properties. You can only learn this until you seen the verb in action in multiple syntactic frames. What is this specific knowledge called?
A syntactic marker, often lacking a specific meaning, that accompanies other syntactic elements. What is this syntactic marker called?
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