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moment being supplanted by “weird.” Syntax is comparatively simple.
For example, young children will tend to combine sentences with “and”
rather than use subordination techniques, as in “I have a cat and her
name is Susie and she is black.” rather than “I have a black cat whose
name is Susie.”

The very young speakers tend to .
1) use .
2) have vocabulary.
3) have syntax.
4) use

(3) At the opposite extreme, the speech of older people ( ± 60 years on)
is fully developed phonologically, lexically, and syntactically, but many
older speakers talk more slowly and in shorter utterances than do
younger groups. In addition, absorptiveness1 and adaptability may be 1 การซึมซับ
diminished, so the speech of this older group tends to be marked by a
vocabulary, and sometimes by a syntax, that more resembles the speech
of the elder’s own youth than the contemporary norms. My grandfather,
for example, always referred to automobiles as “motorcars,” not as “cars,”
because “motorcars” was the term he learned when he was young.
The speech of older people is fully developed ,
and .

(4) The two mediate groups, the youthful and the middle range, can be
only approximately differentiated from one another, for the dialectic
differences between these two age-groups are slight and gradual.
Generally speaking, however, it may be said that the middle-range group
(± 30 to ± 60) shows special liking for 2occupational jargon2 more than 2. ศพั ท์เฉพาะ
the youthful group, whose jargon tends to come from other, nonoccu- ในงานอาชีพ
pational obsessions. Also, the middle-range group often is more