Final Flashcards
Identify the relative pronoun in this sentence: “I miss the stapler that I had.”
that
Which of the following sentences is most likely to be used by a preschooler, but not a toddler?
I ate cookies and you ate cookies.
You and I ate cookies.
I ate big chocolate chip cookies.
I ate it.
You and I ate cookies.
Which is more likely to be used by an adult than a school-age child?
phrasal conjoining
“ourselves”
dependent clauses describe abstract concepts
transformations
dependent clauses describe abstract concepts
Which strategy(ies) do young children use to learn morphology?
Attention to the order of morphemes
Which of the following changes a word’s case (function or type)?
Free morphemes
Inflectional morphemes
Bound morphemes
Derivational morphemes
Derivational morphemes
Which of the following would be counted as two morphemes?
Buffalo Bob
gonna
campground
oxen
oxen
Which of the following best help adults “shade” conversations?
plurals
MLUs
modals
gerunds
modals
What is a reversible passive sentence?
A sentence where the action can be attributed to either subject or object.
Which conjunction is used in causal relationships?
A. If
B. But
C. Because
D. When
C. Because
What is an example of a bound morpheme?
-ness
What developmental milestone does embedding clauses typically occur?
After age 7
- Which of the following would be considered a free morpheme?
cat
What is an example of an instrumental non-reversible sentence?
A. The dog chased the boy.
B. The cake was baked by the chef.
C. The bridge was destroyed by the tractor.
D. The bridge was built by the workers.
C. The bridge was destroyed by the tractor.
Which of the following is an example of a modal adverb?
A. Really
B. Believe
C. Likely
D. Possibility
A. Really
What type of morpheme is -ed in the word “walked”?
Inflectional morpheme
What new syntactic skill is typically seen in early school-aged children as they start to link causes to effects in sentences?
Use of “cause” clauses
What is the difference between an inflectional and a derivational suffix?
An inflectional suffix modifies tense or number, while a derivational suffix changes the word class or meaning.
As children enter the later school-age years, which development in pragmatics becomes more advanced?
Use of comparative and contrastive adverbial conjuncts and disjuncts
What concept explains why children learning past tense might say “goed” instead of “went”?
Overregularization
When does phonological skill appear?
When a child uses a second true word
What’s the difference between phones (speech) & phonemes (phonology)?
Phones do not create a change in meaning, but phonemes do.
Which of the following is an example of fronting?
grape -> “drape”
Which of the following is an example of assimilation?
watermelon -> “mawmermemon”
Which age group is associated with “assimilation?”
Toddler
