Exploratory task 2.1

Match the following types of early sentences produced by children with their examples.

Type	Examples
1. Attributive 2. Agent-action 3. Action-object 4. Agent-object 5. Pointing at 6. Showing where 7. Asking for more 8. Disappearance 9. Possessive 10. Object-place 11. Action-place	A. Daddy hit B. Hit ball C. More ball D. Daddy ball E. That ball F. There ball G. All-gone ball H. Daddy chair I. Book table J. Go store K. Big house

Data of Brown cited in Harley, T. 1997. The Psychology of Language. Psychology Press. P. 370).

Generative grammar

First the children learn the primitive structures, which constitute the Universal Grammar of language acquisition. Later they learn how to extend the structure s and gradually acquire the rules of Generative Grammar. E.g. a child can say "Want soup", "Want more soup", "I want some more soup", "I want some more soup, please Mummy" etc. (After Aitchison, J. 1999. P. 170-173). In acquiring “generative grammar” the children proceed from “language principles” (discoveries that in the language there are words for things, processes, qualities and attitudes, that using the language one can manipulate the behavior of other people, that words can be connected with prepositions and conjunctions”, that sentences can be made longer etc). Further discoveries are that “language principles” function through “language switches” or “language parameters”. In the Turkish language the case system is extremely difficult. The Turkish children first ignore their native case system using the universal principle of joining the words together without inflections. Later they acquire the necessary “switches”. In acquiring the “switches” the children acquire the core grammar and periphery grammar. The “core grammar” is governed by rules and is highly predictable by the language generalities. The “periphery grammar” is made of exceptions to the rule and is predictable by the typical language use. The “core grammar” is necessary to use the language correctly from the point of the language system. The “periphery grammar” is necessary to use the language authentically from the point of native language use.

Exploratory task 2.2

Give examples of the English “core grammar” (cases that are fully consistent with the rules” and “periphery grammar” (cases that are exceptions to the rules)

Core grammar	Periphery grammar
In spelling
In pronunciation
In morphology (e.g. plural of nouns, use of tenses)
In syntax (e.g. word order)

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