@article{Święcicka_2022, title={Children’s vocabulary frequently used at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. A few comparative remarks}, volume={24}, url={https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/pj/article/view/7917}, DOI={10.31648/pj.7917}, abstractNote={<p>The aim of this paper is to characterize words statistically frequent in the vocabulary<br />of preschool children of the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century.<br />The proposed comparative description proves the durability of children’s vocabulary<br />often used over a period of more than thirty years. The stability of children’s vocabulary<br />is manifested both in the identical representation and hierarchy of particular functional<br />classes, and in the persistence of representative semantic categories. The observed status<br />quo is determined by features of the natural language, the developmental qualities<br />of the child’s speech and the benchmarks of the spoken style. One might say that the<br />unchanged, grammatical and semantic, structure is accompanied by the variability<br />of linguistic exponents in the internal structure of classes and semantic categories.<br />This, in turn, is motivated by a number of both intralinguistic and extralinguistic processes, including civilization and cultural transformations, the development of new<br />technologies, the phenomenon of linguistic fashions or a wider social reach of vulgar words.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Prace Językoznawcze}, author={Święcicka, Małgorzata}, year={2022}, month={Sep.}, pages={149–160} }