Noun

Question 0

Nouns could either be……

Answer 0

Simple or Compound

Question 1

What is a noun?

Answer 1

Persons, places, things or abstractions

Question 2

Simple Nouns

Answer 2

Single words (ex: key, car, man, woman)

Question 3

Compound Nouns

Answer 3

Consist of more than one words
Three forms:
1) Closed compounds (ex: swimsuit, birthday)
2) Open compounds (ex: High School)
3) Hyphenated compounds (ex: brother-in-law)

Question 4

What are the nouns classes?

Answer 4

1) Common and Proper Nouns
2) Concrete and Abstract Nouns
3) Count and Noncount Nouns
4) Collective Nouns

Question 5

Common Nouns

Answer 5

• General groups (ex: cat, friend, street, and beauty)

- Not capitalized

Question 6

Proper Nouns

Answer 6

• Always capitalized

- Refer to specific entities (ex: Louisiana)

Question 7

Concrete Nouns

Answer 7

• Physical entities (you can touch physically) (ex: pencil)

Note: Common nouns can either be concrete (ex: cereal) or abstract (ex: logic). However,there are some common nouns (language) are open to debate. All proper nouns are concrete (ex: Dr. Abbott) but there are some exceptions (ex: Dadaism).

Question 8

Abstract nouns

Answer 8

• nonphysical entities (you cannot touch physically) (ex: love)
• Use to describe ideas, emotions, senses and situations

Question 9

Count Nouns

Answer 9

Refer to entities that are viewed as individual elements or units (something that is measurable) (ex: pizza or minutes)

Question 10

Noncount (Mass) Nouns

Answer 10

No individual elements, they have no specific shape or boundaries. (Simply they are not countable) (ex: courage)

Question 11

Collective Nouns

Answer 11

Group acting as a unit (ex: Jury, or flock)

Question 12

What are the noun forms?

Answer 12

1) Number (singular or plural)
2) Gender (masculine, feminine, indefinite or neuter)
3) Case (nominative/subjective, possessive, or objective)

Note: Indefinite refers to both or either gender (ex:child, doctor)
Neuter carry no gender connotation (ex: chair, screen)

Question 13

Developmental Notes

Answer 13

First words are typically nouns.
First word typically appears at 12 months
First words are common, concrete nouns

Question 14

Composition of Early Vocabulary (developmental notes)

Answer 14

-First nouns are called nominals
-General nominals (common noun) about 50% vs.
Specific nominals (proper noun) about 15%
- This trend is observed in several languages including sign language.

Question 15

Order of Acquisition (developmental notes)

Answer 15

Common (apple) -> Proper (Sam)
Concrete (book) -> Abstract (color)
Basic (dog) -> Superordinate (animals) or Subordinate (dalmatian)

Question 16

Late noun development (developmental notes)

Answer 16

• The proportion of nouns in the vocabulary decreases (due to increase of other types of words)
• In adolescence, there is an increased understanding of abstract nouns and of multiple and ambiguous meanings of some nouns