Thoughts and ideas about Sophie homework

When Sophie was aged 2 years and 4 months she used the pronoun "me" incorrectly. This supports Ursula Bellugi's research on the development of pronouns in child language acquisition, She said stage two in the research is when the child uses the pronouns "I" and "me" but interchanges them, therefore the child does not completely understand the appropriate context in which to use these pronouns but the have some sense of understanding because she uses these pronouns when she is referring to herself.

Sophie shows that at the age of 2 years and 4 months she is in stage one of negation. She uses the word "no" at the front of the phrase. This shows that she has limited understanding of making a phrase negative. When adults who have developed language states a negative phrase; they add an auxilary and then "not" to show negation. However, this is very difficult for Sophie's level of understanding of language, therefore, she just uses "no" at the beginning to indicate she doesn't want something.

Sophie uses deletion of unstressed syllables "nother" this shows that her pronunciation is basic and is harder to develop as she hasn't pronounced the syllable correctly. This supports halliday's  research on the heuristic stage. This stage involves the child asking questions to gain information about it's environment. 

When Sophie was 3 years 5 months she uses time expressions. "Tomorrow" this shows that Sophie understands the concept of time and context in which to use these expressions. This supports Piaget's theory that language improves with understanding, this is supported by the cognitive approach which believes pragmatics and context is vital when acquiring language, thus understanding of words and phrases helps you to create more complex sentences.