I will upload chapter 5 readings will be needed in order to answer each question, please number each question. Please do exactly what each question is telling you to do.
1. Define holophrase and give an example (not found in the book).
2. Explain, in your own words, the Informativeness Principle.
3. In two word sentences, what are the two most common syntactic patterns?
4. At what age do children start to understand word order in sentences? Discuss the experiment that shows this.
5. What is the passive voice?
6. When do children start using passive sentences? What difficulty(difficulties) do they have?
7. When do children start understanding passive voice? Describe the experiment that showed this.
8. What is the Canonical Sentence Strategy and why does it explain some of the difficulties kids have learning the passive?
9. What is the minimal distance principle? How does it work? Are there exceptions? Describe one.
10. What are the Reflexive pronoun rule and the plain pronoun rule? (Yes, these are greatly oversimplifieddefitnions.)
11. Which of the types of pronouns mentioned in question 10 are easier for children to understand? Why does the author think this?
12. Define linguistic competence and linguistic performance and explain how this explains problems children have using plain pronouns even though they understand them fairly well.
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