Language Acquisition Quizzes 1-3

_____ are the smallest units of language that carry meaning and are combined to make words.

Morphemes

_____ pertains to the rules governing language use for social purposes.

Pragmatics

Organization of the mental lexicon depends on

syntactic roles

phonological features

semantic similarities

In english /h/ doesnt occur in word final position but can occur in word initial position. This statement is an example of

phonotactic regularities

_____ means that users of a language abide by accepted rules.

conventional

______ refers to the rules of a language governing the sounds that make syllables and words.

Phonology

Which of the following is a measure of morphosyntax that can be used in language sample analysis?

Mean length of utterance (MLU)

Language sampling can provide information about

semantics

syntax

pragmatics

Recommended language sampling context for early elementary school aged children

story retell

T or F: C-units can include incomplete sentence fragments

True

___ ____ are systematic rule governed patterns that characterize toddlers speech.

phonological processes

Later born children exhibit more advanced ______.

conversational skills

______ functions are used to control other peoples behavior.

Regulatory

The 50 word mark usually co occurs with the appearance of children’s _______

First grammatical morphemes

______ is the process by which children change one sound in a syllable so it takes on the features of another sound in the same syllable, example: “dog” becomes “gog”

assimilation

Toddlers from lower SES backgrounds have _____

Shorter MLUs

The total number of morphemes in the utterance “The boy is buying clothes”

6

T or F: While calculating MLU unintelligible utterances are counted as one morpheme

false

The ability to use ______ is vital for success in school because concepts and events outside the classroom are often the focus of instruction.

decontextualized language

T or F: Irregular past tense morphemes are counted as two morphemes

False

_____ are prefixes and suffixes we add to a word to change its meaning and sometimes its part of speech.

Derivational morphemes

During _____ children gradually refine their representations of concepts overtime and with multiple exposure to the target word in carrying contexts.

Slow mapping

A ______ is a spoken or written description of a real or fictional event.

narrative

The word ‘am’ in the sentence “I am sam” is an example for

copula

Grice’s maxims define rules for the following

Conversational pragmatics

Which of the following is an example of subordinating conjunction?

Because

Which discourse function is most prevalent at the preschool age?

Informative

Central character is an example for ______ story element of narratives.

Macrostructure

______ sentences have two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.

Compound sentences

A ______ is a group of words that contains a subject and verb but does no express a complete thought.

Dependent clause.