Professor Crystal is best known for his two encyclopaedias The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Language and The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language. Now go and watch Postman Pat while I start the tea.Ĭhild: When Daddy coming home? (gets SVO order correct all the time)ĭavid Crystal’s Theory On Child Language Acquisition I’ll do you some fish fingers and if you’re a good girl and eat them all you can have a sweetie. Now what do you want for tea?Ĭhild: You having fishes? (incorrect use of plural noun but shows child applying rules) Parent: Who did you play with at breaktime?Ĭhild: Me played with Sarah and Helen.
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