Universals of Grammatical Development in Children.
Universals of Grammatical Development in Children.
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1969-09
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D. Slobin
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This report considers the early stages of grammatical development in the child. It summarizes some cross-linguistic similarities in acquisition of several different types of languages: English (both white and black. lower and middle class). German. Russian. Finnish. Samoan. and Luo. With this small but diverse collection of languages and cultures the author is in a position to consider varied speech input to the child and observe what remains constant in the course of language acquisition. He finds a number of small. intriguing differences but believes that what is remarkable at first glance is the uniformity in rate and pattern of development: He traces stages of language development and points out the linguistic universals which manifest themselves at the various stages. Typically. in all cultures examined. there is a period of babbling ending somewhere around 18 months of age. Overlapping this period is a stage of single -word utterances. followed by a stage of two-word utterances at around 18 -24 months. The two-word stage is often quite briet. but its structural and semantic characteristics appear to be universal. The author believes that the universality of this phase suggests the maturation of a language acquisition device' with a fairly fixed programming span for utterances at the start. (DO)
