Early Semantic Development

Question 1

Between ___________, children advance from using one- or two-word utterances to using sentences that can contain up to ________ or ________!

Answer 1

• 2 and 3 years of age

- five or six words

Question 2

Declarative sentences have ( 3 parts) what are they?

Answer 2

Subject + Verb + Object

Question 3

Part of Browns 14 Grammatical Morphemes:

Some of the earliest grammatical morphemes to emerge are __________ morphemes.

Answer 3

-Inflectional

Question 4

What are the 3 Inflectional morphemes?

Answer 4

Plural –s (Ex. The ducks swim.)
Possessive –s (Ex. The cat’s bowl.)
Progressive –ing

Question 5

Children begin to mark verb tense at around age ______.

Answer 5

3 years

Question 6

At age 3, children mark verb tense by using these two morphemes:

Answer 6

Third personal singular –s (Ex. The baby cries.)

Past tense –ed (Ex. The rabbit jumped.)

Question 7

Following verb tense the BE verbs are used like: the main verb _____ and helping verb _______.

Answer 7

Copula “to be”: serves as the main verb
Ex. Mommy is a nurse.

Auxiliary “to be”: serves as a helping verb
Ex. She is laughing.

Question 8

What is Obligatory Context? example?

Answer 8

• conditions under which a particular morphological form must be used.
• Ex. When a number is used before a noun, the noun must be pluralized. (Two ducks.)

Question 9

Different phonemes that express the same morphological meaning are called

Answer 9

Allomorphs