PHONOLOGY
-Deletion of a final consonant
-Consonant cluster reduction
-Deletion of unstressed syllable
-Substitution
-Redublication of sounds
-Assimilation
-Use of intonation or stress for meaning and understanding of intonation
-Addition of sound to facilitate CVCV pattern
LEXIS/SEMANTICS
-Quantity of words produced/understood
-Concrete/abstract - hypothetical meaning, references to time, past, present, future.
-Overextension - categorical, analogical, statement
-Making new words - compounding, conversion, suffixes and prefixes
-Kinds of words - social, labelling, actions, modifying
-Attributes of objects - hot, cold, big, small.
-Meaning relations - put/give/take.
-Semantic field
GRAMMAR
-One word, two word, telegraphic, post telegraphic, holophrases
-Verb tense forms. Auxillary verbs.
-Asking questions - intonation, question words, inversion of subject and verb, use of auxillaries
-Negative forms - No at the beginning or end, no in the middle
-Tag questions
-Aquisiton of inflections
-Over generalisation
-Correction of irregular forms.
-Plurals
PRAGMATICS
-Conversational functions of language
-Indirect requests
-Speech interaction
-Conventions (turn taking etc)
THEORISTS
-Halliday (instrumental, regulatory, interactional, personal, heuristic, imaginitive, representational)
-Skinner (Nurture)
-Chomsky (Nature, LAD)
-Piaget
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