CMSD 360 Chapter 8

What is the smallest grammatical unit that has meaning?

• Phoneme

• Morpheme

• Grameme

• Grapheme

Who do we credit for the "Golden Norms" of language development/morpheme development

• Cannon

• Piaget

• Vygotsky

• Brown

What is the correct number?

"Brown's _ grammatical morphemes"

• 14

• 12

• 13

• 15

Compound words, proper nouns, diminutive forms, and formulated reduplications are counted as how many morphemes?

• 0

• 2

• 1

• 1.5

Which is precursor to syntax?

• Using all 14 grammatical morphemes

• Putting 3 words together

• Playing collaboratively

• Engaging in sequenced behaviors/ symbolic play

Which is an example of symbolic play?

• Pretending to feed a doll food

• Playing the drums with two drumsticks and sharing with a peer

• Playing with a puzzle with an adult

• Getting a cup of water and drinking from it and then giving some to the parent to drink

Which of these is NOT an influence on later syntactic development

• Exposure to written language

• New ways of relating language to thought

• Learning letters and numbers

• Increase in working memory capacity

(SLI) occurs in approximately 7.4% of the kindergarten population. What does SLI stand for?

• Sudden Language Impairment

• Social Language Impairment

• Speech Language Impairment

• Specific Language Imairment

According to Brown, at 3 years and one month of age, what is the standard MLU?

• 2.0-2.5

• 2.5-3.0

• 3.0-3.75

• 3.75-4.5

How many morphemes are in this sentence?

Bobby Joe I, I didn't want to wear those cowgirl shoes, I wanted to wear the beautiful purple ones.

• 23

• 19

• 20

• 22