10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIVOT GRAMMAR»
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First Language Acquisition: Method, Description and Explanation
1 1 The defining features of a pivot grammar The possible combinations in a pivot
grammar are summarized below. Nonpermitted combinations are marked with an
asterisk (*): Possible word combinations of a pivot grammar (a) Pl+X (where PI ...
2
Elements of Social Psychology
Pivot Grammar is a system that classified the words of children's first sentences
into two broad classes, pivot and open, and formulated rules which predicted that
a pivot word would occur only in a fixed sequential position, in combination with ...
3
Developmental Psychology
Pivot grammar. The name given to the use of single nouns with adjectives,
adverbs, prepositions, or possessives on either side of the noun, typically during
the two-word stage of language development. For example, 'big dog', 'dog bite'.
Jacki Watts, Kate Cockcroft, Norman Duncan (Ph. D.), 2009
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Early Syntactic Development: A Cross-Linguistic Study with ...
3 The pivot grammar approach Prior to the early 1960s, studies of child language
typically dealt with such topics as vocabulary growth and proportion of words in
various traditionally defined grammatical classes (see McCarthy, 1954, for a ...
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Language in Infancy and Childhood: A Linguistic Introduction ...
(vi) The most important objection to the notion of pivot grammar, however, must
be that it does not take meaning into account. The classes pivot and open have
no semantic correlates (not even a central type of correlate, which is the position
in ...
6
Linguistics Encyclopedia
Even if children are presented with fullsentences to imitate, they tend to repeat
the sentences in telegraphic form. Many twoword utterances can beseen as
instantiations of pivot grammar (Braine 1963). Braine (1963) observed a
tendency for ...
Arguments against a pivot-grammar were advanced in the early seventies by
Bowerman (1973), Brown (1973) and Bloom (1970). These investigators argued
that the grammar made incorrect predictions about the distributional privileges
and ...
Peter Jordens, Josine A. Lalleman, 1988
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Semi-lexical Categories: The Function of Content Words and ...
Pivot Grammar According to Braine' s (1963) Theory of Pivot Grammar, the child's
grammar has two classes that do not, in any obvious way, overlap with adult
grammatical classes. This non-congruity is fully intentional (Bowerman 1973, p.c.
) ...
Norbert Corver, Henk C. van Riemsdijk, 2001
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Pathways to Language: From Fetus to Adolescent
At one point, the use of pivots was thought to characterize a universal stage in all
children's grammatical development—the pivot grammar stage. It is now
considered to be only one of many possible pathways through which some
children ...
Kyra KARMILOFF, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Kyra Karmiloff, 2009
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Terminology of Communication Disorders: Speech-language-hearing
See also pivot grammar. participle See under verbal (below), pivot (piv'at) In pivot
grammar, the name assigned to a class of words used by children at the two-
word stage of linguistic development; typified by a small number of words each ...
Lucille Nicolosi, Elizabeth Harryman, Janet Kresheck, 2004
