315 by TANJIMA RAHMAN

MLU calculation

tanjimarahman — 2024-04-24 16:26:59 UTC

Total morphemes produced by C: 736

Total number of utterances by C: 106

MLU= 6.94

✅An MLU of 6.94 suggests that this child uses longer, more complex sentences than her peers.

✅Indication of strong grasp of grammar and vocabulary for her age.

Principals used by the child

tanjimarahman — 2024-04-24 16:29:15 UTC

Transparency Principle

ar arekta

Arekta

Simplicity Principle

Productivity Principle

Observation/Comments

tanjimarahman — 2024-04-24 17:50:06 UTC

✅a variety of morphological structures and linguistic patterns used in the conversation.

Often tends to correct herself

lot of repetations

participant also pronounced some non words

✅demonstrates the ability to form questions

✅age-appropriate for a 2;10 old Bengali speaking child

✅demonstrates the ability to use negation

✅the child can communicate in multi-morphemic utterances

a variety of morphological structures and linguistic patterns us

Negation

tanjimarahman — 2024-04-24 18:03:34 UTC

question formation using Negation

Example: Using "na" at the end to form a question

"Ora shorbot khay an?"

Uses no to express refusal

Example: na khabo na. […] na kisu khabo na

Here she uses negation to express refusal

How words are built:

tanjimarahman — 2024-04-24 18:08:49 UTC

Morpheme analysis

👉Using suffix ( ekta -> ek + ta, dekho -> dekh+ o ) (o is a person marker)

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Morphological and syntactical analysis of a 2-years 10-month-old or 34-month-old toddler.

miftahuljannatprapti — 2024-04-25 03:56:21 UTC

To understand the toddler’s/participant’s first language acquisition and language, the collected data will be analysed through morphological development, syntactical development and grammatical development of the toddler’s language.

language sample: The language sample was collected during a play session between the toddler and the experimenter. It is a single recorded but longer sample. The experimenter used a spontaneous method.

Participant: The participant in this analysis is a 2-year-old toddler girl and her name initial is PR but in this analysis, PR will be referred to as ‘child’ as there is only one participant. Her first language is Bangla and people in her family speak in Bangla based on the data.

Case marking

miftahuljannatprapti — 2024-04-25 07:22:38 UTC

The child has used first-person, second person and third-person case markers mostly. However, it seems like the child does not understand the difference between ‘Apni’ and ‘Tumi’ as she used both tumi and apni while referring to E(the experimenter). In Bangla, there are two variations of ‘you’; ‘tumi’ and ‘apni’. ‘Apni’ is used to refer to seniors or strangers while ‘tumi’ is used to refer to familiar people of and same age or juniors. Even though the child mixed the use of tumi and apni, the child used the correct form of nominative case, objective case and possessive case of Ami(I), Tumi(You), Apni(You). The child has not learned to differentiate between the usage of ‘etar’ and ‘or’ as she used ‘etar’ both ‘or’ to refer to her dolls. ‘Etar’ is mostly used for animals and lifeless objects and ‘or’ is to refer to a person or any animal or inanimate object that has been personified.

Question formation

miftahuljannatprapti — 2024-04-25 09:01:12 UTC

The child uses joint attention while communicating with the experimenter as she is pointing at various objects and communicating with the experimenter about that object or third entity. The questions that she frequently has asked throughout the conversation are:

For example:

Eta ki? (what’s this?)

Eta? (This?)

Eita? (This?)

Eta kar bari? (Whose house is this?)

Khaben? (do you want to eat?)

Khaisen? (did you eat?/have you eaten?)

Ha? (yes/no question or to emphasize the question or to get the attention of the experimenter.)

The child dropped a few morphemes while asking questions because adult Bangla native speakers tend to drop specific morphemes while asking questions, so the child produces interrogative sentences the same as the adults.