Chapter 3- Language Acquisition

Question 1

What are the three domains of language?

Answer 1

Form, content, use

Question 2

What makes up form?

Answer 2

phonology, morphology, syntax

Question 3

What makes up content?

Answer 3

semantics

Question 4

What makes up use?

Answer 4

Pragmatics

Question 5

What refers to where the articulators approximate each other to create a sound source for consonants?

Answer 5

Place of articulation

Question 6

What refers to how the sound is modified along the vocal tract for consonants?

Answer 6

Manner of articulation

Question 7

What refers to the presence or absence of vocal fold vibration when producing sounds?

Answer 7

Voicing

Question 8

Describe place, manner, & voicing of /b/

Answer 8

1. bilabial
2. stop
3. voiced

Question 9

Describe place, manner, & voicing of /h/

Answer 9

1. glottal
2. fricative
3. unvoiced

Question 10

How are vowels characterized?

Answer 10

1. tongue height
2. tongue advancement
3. tension or lax

Question 11

What is overgeneralization?

Answer 11

A type of semantic error: saying “ball” for “moon” indicating a child thinks a word meaning is more broadly applied

Question 12

What is undergeneralization?

Answer 12

only saying the child’s dog is “dog” but not other dogs indicates a child thinks a word’s meaning is too restricted or narrow

Question 13

Early language development & vocabulary is comprised primarily of what?

Answer 13

nouns

Question 14

When do children begin to acquire verbs?

Answer 14

24 months

Question 15

What is a free morpheme?

Answer 15

those that stand alone and carry meaning (e.g., tree, house, dog, milk)

Question 16

What is a bound morpheme?

Answer 16

must be combined to a free morpheme in order to be meaningful (e.g., -s, -ing)

Question 17

What are the two types of affixes?

Answer 17

Prefixes & suffixes

Question 18

How is MLU calculated?

Answer 18

total number of free & bound morphemes/total number of utterances