Applied Linguistics. The Sentence Structure in Children Version vs. Adult Version. 'Little Red Riding Hood'

Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Didactics - English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: 1,7, University of Hildesheim, language: English, abstract: 'Once upon a time' there were only 100 languages in the world. Nowadays there are around 5,000 to 10,000 languages (Kracht 2011: 4). Every language has five levels of analysis: morphology, phonology, phonetics, semantics and syntax. Both the semantic and the morphology are closely related to the syntax. While the morphology deals with the structure within words, the semantic deals with the meaning of sentences and the syntax with the grammatical structure of sentences (Brown & Miller 1980: 12). Each language has its own unique structure. However, there are also differences within a language. The structure not only changed historically but also when it comes to the target groups. To make these differences clear, this essay will focus on the syntactic structure of children vs. adult fairy tales.