chapter 7

Question 1

Ways of classifying a child’s first words(12-26 months)

Answer 1

Pragmatically
Primitive Speech Acts (Dore 1974, 1975)
Semantically
Semantic relations
Grammatically
MLUm

Question 2

What is MLU?

Answer 2

A calculation of the average number of morphemes a child produces in a representative language sample

Question 3

How do we calculate MLU

Answer 3

Count the morphemes in each utterance
Add the total number of morphemes and divide by the number of utterances in the sample.
Total # of morphemes/ Total # of utterances

Question 4

Ways of classifying a child’s first words… (27-46 months)

Answer 4

Pragmatically
Primitive Speech Acts (Dore 1974, 1975)
Semantically
Types of words used
Nouns,
Verbs,
Adjective
Grammatically
Brown’s Grammatical Morphemes
MLUm
(SUGAR Method Can Also be used beyond 46 months)

Question 5

The Verb “To be”

Answer 5

Provide information about a subject

Question 6

Present Simple:

Answer 6

Singular: am , is
Plural: are

Question 7

Past Simple:

Answer 7

Singular: was
Plural: were

Question 8

Present and Past Participle

Answer 8

being and been

Question 9

Copula

Answer 9

The verb ‘to be’ is followed by a noun, adjective, or preposition
I am happy
Amy was under the tree
It was Amy

Question 10

Auxiliary

Answer 10

The verb ‘to be’ is ’helping’ the main verb
I am running
Amy was climbing the tree

Question 11

Contractible

Answer 11

It + is = It’s

We + are= We’re

She + is= She’s

Amy + is = Amy’s

Question 12

Uncontactable

Answer 12

Is it happening?

Was it fun?

They are running