Another kind of change that can be thought of as “economy of memory” results in a reduction of the number of exceptional or irregular morphemes. For example, children and adults are presently saying I dreamed last night (instead of dreamt). This kind of change has been called rule simplification.

Discuss the different theories of child language acquisition with reference to the behaviorist learning model and the nativist biological model.

What characteristics of language do you think should be included in a good, comprehensive definition of language?

predication

general linguistics

design features

complementary antonyms

componential analysis

language transfer

hyponymy

broad transcription