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Early Morphological Acquisition Early Morphological Acquisition A.  Two Kinds of Words Lexical Class: carry major meanings of sentences: noun, verb, adjective, adverb Functional Class: modulate the meanings of lexical class words • Bound vs. Free morphemes Bound Categories - functional categories affixed to lexical categories Noun: plural {-s}, e.g. two cat/s possessive {-s}, e.g. cat/’s paw Verb Inflections: progressive...

The devalopment of children’s language Introduction The devalopment of children’s language is an interesting matter to discuss in phonology. We have already discussed clearly about LAD in our previous meeting. Here, we would like to take another object as matter of our discussion. Now, we try to use our previous discussion as one of source. We take some part in it and we try to analyse some distinction bwtween the development of western...

First Language Acquisition Introduction Language acquisition is one of the central topics in cognitive science. Every theory of cognition has tried to explain it; probably no other topic has aroused such controversy. Possessing a language is the quintessentially human trait: all normal humans speak, no non human animal does. Language is the main vehicle by which we know about other people's thoughts, and the two must be intimately related....