Acquisition of Bulgarian Grammar

Plural –i / -tsi/ -tsa/ -a / -e / -ove/ -ta

Pechka – Pechki

Mechka – ………

 

Kula  -  ………….                                                 

Ulitsa   -  ……………

 

Kniga i Tedradka - …………… i  …………….                                                 

 

Edno Dete s(ύs)  - detsa                                             

Edno Kuche       -  Kucheta

 

Edin Hladilnik     -  Hladilnitsi                                                       

Edin Himikal       -  Himikali

Utchitel –  …………..

Utchitelka – …………..

Utchenik – …………

Utchenichka –  ……………

       

JέVOTNέ

……… Kotka -

………. Zmia -

……….. Slon –

……….. Kokoshka -

……….. Petel –

……….. Ptitsa –

……….. Riba –

………..  Orel –

……….. Gύlύb –

……….. Lyastovichka –

……….. Tigύr –

……….. Lύv –

………... oftsa - oftse

………… Krava –

………… Jaba –

 

“Negative” in Bulgarian

“ne”

Az iskam – Az ne iskam

Ti iskash li sladoled ? – Ne, az ne iskam sladoled, iskam sladkish.

 

Az mislya za tebe.

Ti mislish za mene.

Toy/tya misli za krava(ta).

Nie mislime …………

Vie mislite …………..

Te mislyat …………

 

(have)

…… έmam ………………………………..

…… έmash ………………………………

….... έma ………………………………….

…… έmame ………………………………

…… έmate ………………………………..

…… έmat …………………………………

 

•        The Role of the Native Language

•        The First and Second Language

 

I. 1960’s Behaviourism & audiolingualism    

     Language as habit

    Contrastive analysis

II. 1970’s Interlanguage

    Language as cognitive system

    Error analysis

III. 1980’s ~ SLA theory refinement

    Multiple perspectives

 

Mistake: Random performance slip caused by fatigue, excitement, etc. Readily self-corrected.

Error: Systematic deviation by learners who have not yet mastered the rules. More difficult to correct. Indication of learner’s attempt to figure out the L2 system

 

Interlingual – based on cross-linguistic comparisons

Intralingual – based on language being learned

 

Child First Language Acquisition

•        Babbling (Languagelike sounds,Ex.ba, 5-12 m.)

•        The One-Word Stage (Simple Nouns and Verbs,  Holophrastic: Overextention and underextention of meaning, Ex. doggie, 12-20)

•        Multiword Stages (Eg. Mommy sock, see doggie, there book, gimme ball, no go outside, 20-)

•        Words

•        Sounds and Pronunciation

•        Syntax

•        Morphology

 

Order of Acquisition of Morphemes

•        1. Present progressive  (-ing)

•        2- 3. Preposition in/on

•        4. Plural  (-s)

•        5. Past irregular

•        6. Possessive (-’s)

•        7. Uncontracted copula  (is, am, were)

•        8. Articles  (a, the)

•        9. Past regular (-ed)

•        10. Third person regular (-s)

•        11 Third person irregular (Brown, 1973)