What was Gervains test in _
2012
Published work that tested babies at 2 and 3 days old and discovered that brain activity peaked with reduplicated syllables
What does Gervains study not explain
Why many of the first words contain variegated syllables
What does David Crystal argue
That children recognise their parents get excited when they say the ‘ma’ and ‘da’ syllable therefore they say this a lot
Lexical words (sometimes called _ or …) carry …
Content
Open class words
Some form of meaning
Grammatical words (sometimes called … or …) serve a …
Function words
Closed words
Cohesive purpose in holding the sentence together