Talk:Single Word Utterances/@comment-24947466-20150731192932

Linguistic Knowledge at Early Stage I; Evidence from Successive Single Word Utterances Horgan, Dianne. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development12.Dec (Dec 1976): 116-126.

Evidence is presented for linguistic knowledge in the single word period that can withstand criticism of appropriately ordered successive single word utterances. The upper boundary of the single word stage is around 1.20. Unordered successive single word utterances are often cited as evidence of nonlinguistic knowledge during the single word period. Word order is considered one of the best indications that the child possesses linguistic knowledge (syntax). This study examines the order of mention in sixty-five sets of successive single word utterances from 5 children from a larger sample of 54 children (ages between 2:0 & 4:2). The children were shown line drawings from a finder divided into three sections. The first section consisted of pictures similar to an experimental set (a 'warm-up'). The second section consisted of forty-four pictures representing such situations as animate agent, inanimate agent, animate object, inanimate object, agent present, agent absent, instrument present, & instrument absent. The third section was a vocabulary check. The results show that significantly more of children's successive single utterances describing reversible pictures are ordered 'agent/object' than are ordered 'object/agent'. J. Atkinson

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