ODATO

• Christopher odato-What did he focus on?


  like' and the different ways it's used
• the 4 ways odato found like was used;

  Discourse marker, comparative,vocative,verb
• Where else did he look at the use of 'like'?

  In children's speech
• What did he find in children's speech?

  There are 3 stages for the use of like
• what are the 3 stages?

  1.It is used infrequently and only in a few syntactic positions 2.More frequent usage and used in more positions - girls aged 5, boys aged 7 3.'like' is used much more frequently and in a range of positions - girls before boys