RAZVOJNE POJAVE U GOVORU DJECE – GREŠKE U GRAMATIČKOJ STRUKTURI
DEVELOPMENT PHENOMENA IN CHILDREN'S SPEECH – MISTAKES IN GRAMATIC STRUCTURE

Summary/Abstract: In children’s speech there are some irregularities (mistakes in the voice articulation, mistakes in the language grammatical structure, etc.) that represent a development phenomenon in their speech-language development because they fade away and eventually completely disappear. The paper presents a case study – during longitudinal monitoring of one child's speech with proper speech-language development, speech mistakes were recorded in a time period of 3 to 6 years of age. The mistakes recorded in the morphological forms of verbs, adjectives and pronouns were analysed. The research method used participatory observation method and comparative-descriptive method.The analysis shows that mistakes usually occur in forms that in standard language differ from the correct change – the child ‘corrects’ the morphological mistakes and suffixes by incorrectly transforming the irregular forms into the regular ones, thus constructing a system of correct paradigms. Thus, in fact, child’s mistakes are often corrections to what is in the grammar irregular. These mistakes occur in the children’s speech of different mother tongues, which indicates that children first adopt the most general rules, and later learn the exceptions. They also support the assumption that there are structures in the child's brain, scientifically not explained yet, which enable the reconstruction of the system of rules, that is, the grammar of the mother tongue based on the speech sample, i.e. speech that the child hears from his environment.

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