From Telegraphic Speech to Morphological and Syntactic Iconicity. Early Child Speech Development from Polish and English Data

Ewa Konieczna

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Konieczna, Ewa. From Telegraphic Speech to Morphological and Syntactic Iconicity. Early Child Speech Development from Polish and English Data. Red. . Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2014, 216 s. ISBN 978-83-7996-067-5

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Natural Morphology, cognitive development, overgeneralisation, inflectional diagram, lexical innovation

The work of Dr Ewa Konieczna constitutes an important and valuable contribution to the studies of first language acquisition. Although intensive research in this field is being carried out in many countries and is concerned with data coming from a...

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ISBN/ISSN:

978-83-7996-067-5

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego

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2014

Liczba stron:

216

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Acknowledgements10
Introduction11
CHAPTER I. General overview of first language acquisition theories15
Introduction15
1.1. Milestones in first language acquisition research16
1.1.1. Earliest records of first language acquisition16
1.1.2. Behaviourism16
1.1.3. Alternatives to behaviourism17
1.2. Chomsky’s Universal Grammar19
1.3. First grammatical analyses24
1.4. Theories stemming from the UG approach28
1.5. New developments31
1.5.1. Minimalism and functional categories31
1.5.2. Cognitive theories of first language acquisition33
1.5.3. Modern cognitive approaches to first language acquisition38
Conclusion47
CHAPTER II. Omission of content and function words48
Introduction48
2.1. Language redundancy49
2.2. Definition of telegraphic speech53
2.3. Explanation of omissions55
2.3.1. Omission of functors56
2.3.2. Omission of contentives59
2.4. Ambiguity76
2.4.1. Ambiguity of telegraphic speech78
2.4.2. Ambiguity of sentences deprived of content words97
2.5. Semantic analysis of sentences devoid of content and function words in Polish and English113
Conclusion118
CHAPTER III. Morphological and syntactic iconicity in child language120
Introduction120
3.1. Historical background121
3.1.1. Arbitrary and motivated signs122
3.1.2. Motivated and arbitrary signs in language124
3.2. Morphological iconicity128
3.2.1. Natural Morphology128
3.2.2. Morphological iconicity in the light of the theory of Natural Morphology132
3.2.3. Images in children’s language134
3.2.4. Inflectional diagrams in children’s language138
3.2.5. Derivationaliconicity165
3.3. Syntacticiconicity183
3.3.1. The principle of quantity183
3.3.2. The principle of sequentiality189
3.3.3. The principle of distance190
Conclusion191
Conclusions193
References204

onlysomephenomenaandexclusivelyintheholophrasticstage,

2towhichthe

principleofimitationandpositivefeedbackmightbeapplied(Ingram(1995)).

Stillharshercriticismwasengenderedwhengenerativelinguistics,emphasizing

therule-governedandcreativenatureofhumanlanguage,wasdeveloped,initiated

byChomsky’spublicationofSyntacticStructuresin1957(Chomsky(1957)).

Moreover,thebehaviouristtheorywasfiercelycriticisedbysupportersof

thedevelopmentalistapproachestofirstlanguageacquisition,suchasPiaget,

accordingtowhomlanguageistheresultofgeneralsymbolicgrowth.(Piaget

(1970),PiagetandInhelder(1966),Piaget(1952)).

BehaviourismwascriticisedseverelybyPiagetonthegroundsofits

oversimplicityandduetothefactthatitignorescompletelytheexistenceof

congenitalpotentialanddisregardsthecreativityofhumanlanguage.Instead,he

hasproposedtheconstructivistviewoflanguageacquisition,whichmeansthat

childrenareendowedwiththecapacitytoconstructtheirlanguageandthat

linguisticdevelopmentisprecededbycognitivegrowth.Thisprocessproceedsin

stages,i.e.particularphasesincognitiveandlinguisticadvancementareattained

bythechildandearlierstructuresarebuiltuponthroughinteractionwiththe

environment.Piaget’sapproachstressestheimportanceoftheperiodof

prelinguisticdevelopment(frombirthtotheageoftwo),duringwhichthe

foundationsforspeechproductionandperceptionareestablished.Thisperiodis

referredtoassensorimotorbecausethechildsolvesproblemsbymeansofits

sensorysystemsandmotoractivity.Thistermalsoimpliesthatthechildderives

understandingoftheworldsolelyfromhisactionpatternsassociatedwithobjects.

Forexample,instage3ofthesensorimotorperiod,calledsecondary

circularreactions,theappearanceofantecedentstolaterclassesofconceptscan

beobserved.Piaget(1952:234)argues:[ł]thesecondaryschemataconstitute

thefirstoutlineofwhatwillbecomeclassesorconceptsofreflexiveintelligence:

perceivinganobjectassomethingtoshake,rub,etc.Thesearethefirst

foundationsofthelaterclassificationofobjectsandtheircharacteristicfeatures,

whichwillberesponsibleforestablishingtheconceptofthepartsofspeech.

Stillanotherdevelopmenttakingplacealsointheprelinguisticperiodand

essentialforthelateremergenceofspeechisobjectpermanence.Thisnotionis

definedasthechild’sawarenessofthefactthatobjectscontinuetoexist

althoughtheyarenolongerseen.Itshowsthattheinfant’srelianceonsymbols

becomesmoreandmoreadvancedandgraduallyreplaceshissensorimotor

schemata.Onlywhenthechildiscognitivelymatureenough,isitcapableof

acquiringitsnativelanguage.

2Holophrasticspeechconsistsofone-wordutterances;thatis,holophraseswhichfunctionas

acomplexideaorasentence.Forexample,theintendedmeaningoftheholophrasemilkmaybe

‘Givemesomemilk’(Dale(1975)).

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