Closed class/function words - Determiners, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs and modal auxiliary verbs, Determiner - A word that modifies, describes or introduces a noun, Preposition - A word that describes the relationship noun and other words in the sentence, Pronoun - A word that replaces a noun or noun phrase, Auxiliary verb - A minor verb to support the main verb of the sentence, Modal auxiliary verb - A word used along with a main verb to express possibility, ability, permission or necessity, Phrase - A group of words that play a particular role in a sentence but doesn't contain both a subject and a verb, Clause - A group of words that contains both a subject and a verb, Conjunction - A word that connects phrases or clauses together, Subject - The noun, pronoun or noun phrases preforming the action in a sentence, Verb - A word that describes what the subject of a sentence or clause is doing, Declarative sentence - Typically statements a type of sentence that starts with a subject then a verb, Interrogative sentence - Sentence type typically used in questions, starts with auxiliary or modal auxiliary verb , Imperative sentence - A type of sentence normally used to give a command, starts with an implied subject then a verb, Exclamative sentence - Sentence type used for emotive responses., Sentence fragment - Incomplete sentences, Simple sentence - Only has one independent clause, Compound sentence - A sentence containing two or more independent clauses with a conjunction, Complex sentence - A sentence with at least one independent clause and one or more dependent, Compound-complex sentence - A sentence that combines a compound and a complex sentence, Universal grammar theory - The theory proposes that all humans are born with an innate ability to acquire, develop and understand language, Usage-based theory - The theory that language structure emerges from actual language use, not from innate or pre-existing rules, Critical age hypothesis - Is the hypothesis that it's only possible to learn a language fluently if they start before a certain age, Consonant cluster - A group two or more consonant clusters in a row within a word, Target utterance - Is the intended statement or phrase to be said, Grammatical overgeneralisation - Refers to the child applying grammatical rules to widely, Semantic overextension - A type of semantic error where a word's meaning is extended beyond its actual definition, Semantic underextension - When a child uses a word to refer to a narrower category of objects or situations than its actual meaning, Codeswitching - The practice of switching between two or more languages when speaking,

Lexicology, Syntax and Child language errors

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