CSD 241: Exam 1

Question 1

What is a Phoneme?

Answer 1

A speech Sound

Question 2

What is a Morpheme?

Answer 2

The smallest unit of language that carries meaning

Question 3

What are free vs. bound morphemes

Answer 3

Free: Smallest meaningful unit of language that CAN stand alone

Bound: Smallest meaningful unit of language which must be COMBINED with a free morpheme to be meaningful

Question 4

What is a phonology?

Answer 4

The study of the use of the speech sound system

Question 5

What is morphology?

Answer 5

The study of the word structure

Question 6

What is Phonetics?

Answer 6

The study of the acoustic and physical properties of the speech sound

Question 7

What is phonetic inventory?

Answer 7

The list of speech sounds in a language

Question 8

What is speech Intelligibility

Answer 8

The speech clarity level of a message

Question 9

What percent should a three and four year old child speech should be understood? (intelligibility)

Answer 9

Three- 80%

Four- 90%-100%

Question 10

What is stage 1 of Browns Morphological development?

Answer 10

MLU 1.0-2.0
Age: 12-26 months
What happens: Two word combinations

Question 11

What is stage 2 of Browns Morphological development?

Answer 11

MLU 2.0-2.5
Age: 27-30 months

Question 12

What is stage 3 of Browns Morphological development?

Answer 12

MLU 2.5-3.0
Age: 31-34 months
starting to for complete sentences, who what where questions.

Question 13

what is stage 4 of Browns Morphological development?

Answer 13

MLU 3.0-3.75
Age: 35-40 months

Question 14

What is stage 5 of Browns Morphological development?

Answer 14

MLU 3.75-4.5
Age: 41-46 months

Question 15

what is stage 6 +of Browns Morphological development?

Answer 15

MLU 4.5+
Age: 47+ months

Question 16

Present progressive

Answer 16

-ing
Ex. I am running

Question 17

Preposition

Answer 17

in or on
Ex. My dog is in the basket

Question 18

Regular plural

Answer 18

-s
Ex. I have read 5 books this summer

Question 19

Irregular past tense

Answer 19

Any verb in the past tense that does NOT take -ed to be past tense
ex. Johnny ate all of the cookies

Question 20

Possessive

Answer 20

-s (owner)’s (possessive)
Ex. Mary’s shoes are dirty

Question 21

Article

Answer 21

a
Ex. I found a lost cat on

Question 22

Regular past tense

Answer 22

-ed (any verb that takes -ed to signal past tense)
Ex. He jumped into the lake

Question 23

Regular 3rd person singular

Answer 23

-s
Ex. She drinks too much soda

Question 24

Irregular 3rd person singular

Answer 24

has
Ex. He has a pool at his house

Question 25

Contractible copula

Answer 25

am, is, and are Ex. We are on a team

Question 26

Uncontractible copula

Answer 26

Cannot be contracted Ex. Are you home?

Question 27

Contractible auxiliary

Answer 27

Was, didn't, would, shall Ex. He is walking--> He's walking

Question 28

Uncontractible auxiliary

Answer 28

When an auxiliary cannot be contracted Ex. Are you doing homework?

Question 29

What is telegraphic speech?

Answer 29

Early words

Question 30

What is the minimum amount of utterances?

Answer 30

50

Question 31

How to calculate Chronological age?

Answer 31

Date of sample (year, month, date) Date of birth (year, month, date) Years and month

Question 32

A situation or environment in which the use of a specific grammatical form is required in order to follow the rules of standard grammar( to use a certain morpheme)

Answer 32

Obligatory context

Question 33

Main points of the TedTalk

Answer 33

perceive speech sounds of different languages (not understand the language) become culturally bound by 8-10 months

Question 34

What is Telegraphic language?

Answer 34

1 to 2 word utterances and children are using context words to convey meaning.

Question 35

What are considered the first true words

Answer 35

speech sounds: stops, nasals and glides

Question 36

Impact of speech sound disorder

Answer 36

becoming shy from being made fun of because in the past

Question 37

Knowledge that a language is made out of sounds and the ability to play with sounds

Answer 37

Phonological awareness

Question 38

IS there a relationship between speech sound disorders and reading in the future

Answer 38

yes

Question 39

What are the characteristics of the first true word?

Answer 39

The word is meaningful, phonetically consistent, and phonetically adult like(resembles to the adult form) Ex. "Wawa" for water

Question 40

Linguistic precursors to the first true word

Answer 40

Coo, Goo, babble, use protowords,

Question 41

Some non verbal aspects of language

Answer 41

Body language, facial expressions