STAGES OF NEGATION

• Who created the stages of negation?

  Bellugi
• what is stage one?

  2 years old

  produces sentences with no or not added to beginning or end. Only way of producing negatives
• what is stage two?

  2 years, 3 months

  no is retained but appears mid utterance

  more variety in negatives with ‘can’t’ and ‘don’t’, tend to learn these before can and do
• what is stage three?

  2 years, 9 months

  ‘not‘ emerges more consistently. more consistency and variety in auxiliary verbs. ”That was not me” ‘not’ is in the correct position. ‘couldn’t’ ‘didnt’ and ‘wont’ appear.

  still not fully able to form negatives correct every single time