How can we think about a sentence’s structure, after all ... because it involved rather clumsy bubbles. Here’s an example, applied to a typically worthy sentence (the diagram comes courtesy ...

phonetics (sounds/sound inventory of a language), phonology (how we understand and organize the sounds and patterns), morphology (word structure, morphernes; how smaller units of meaning make up words ...

But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language ... ball was kicked by the boy,” for example), and point to a picture that ...