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The Five Components of Language

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following would we look at to examine a child's syntactic development?

a)

Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)

b)

Turn-Taking Skills

c)

Vocabulary Diversity

d)

Phonological Processes

2.

Which of the following is part of the development of pragmatic skills? (Select all that apply.)

a)

Acquiring communication functions

b)

Learning new words.

c)

Developing conversational skills

d)

Developing a sensitivity to extralinguistic cues

3.

True/False: Vowels are acquired before consonants; different consonants are mastered at different times (ages).

a)

True

b)

False

4.

_________ __________ refers to the internalization of the rules for using prefixes and suffixes.

(a)  

5.

__________ ___________ change the syntactic class of a word.

(a)  

6.

True/False: Inflectional morphemes do not change the part of speech of a word.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

__________ ___________ make a (-n affirmative) statement.

(a)  

8.

_________ __________ involve the act of questioning.

(a)  

9.

Which of the following are examples of minimal pairs? (Select all that apply.)

a)

Sue/zoo

b)

Sue/shoe

c)

pet/peck

d)

four/for

10.

True/False: Phonological awareness is the ability to attend to the phonological units of speech.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Which of the following can serve as a proxy for estimating syntactic complexity?

a)

Number of meaningful units

b)

Appropriate use of pronouns

c)

Ability to repair communication break downs

d)

Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)

12.

Which of the following sentences contain embedded clauses? (Select all that apply.)

a)

Mikey and I are going to the game.

b)

The lady who won the context was our principal.

c)

Who left the dishes in the sink?

d)

We will use the picture that got the most "likes" on Facebook for our yearbook cover.

13.

Which of the following sentences contain conjoined clauses? (Select all that apply.)

a)

Mom will go to the store, and Dad will stay home.

b)

I would have gone to the party, but I didn't have a ride.

c)

That's the toy that Mommy gave me.

d)

The students may write a thesis, or they may take the comprehensive exam.

14.

The _______ ________ _________ hypothesis emphasizes that the grammatical properties of children's language use depend on exposure to the properties in Child-Directed Speech (CDS).

(a)  

15.

Let's see if you can make a connection:)! The "Learning-From-Input" hypothesis best belongs to which school of thought in language development?

a)

nature-inspired theories/theorists

b)

nurture-inspired theories/theorists

16.

Which process does this example best describe?

Hearing the word "bird," activates words like "wings, robin, canary" in the semantic network.

a)

Extralinguistic Activation

b)

Focused Activation

c)

Spreading Activation

d)

Cognitive Activation

17.

Which of the following are examples of join attention? (Select all that apply.)

a)

Baby stacks blocks while mom puts the dolls to bed.

b)

Mom says, "Look!" Baby and mom both look at the puppy together then baby looks up at mom.

c)

Baby is looking at a book about zoo animals while mom reads a book about Michelle Obama.

d)

Mom asks, "What should we feed Kitty?" Baby puts cheerios in front of Kitty and looks at mom.

18.

True/False: According to ASHA norms, 2-year-olds are approximately 10% intelligible.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

(a)   teaches the relationships between letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes).

20.

(a)   sentences express negation and rely on such words as "no, not, can't, don't," and "won't."

21.

Which of the following refers to the ability to focus on the sounds that make up the syllables and words through implicit or explicit analysis?

a)

Phonics

b)

Graphology

c)

Phonological Awareness

d)

Syntactic Complexity

22.

Which of the following are examples of phonemic awareness tasks? (Select all that apply.)

a)

Identifying the first sound in the word "cat."

b)

Identifying the last sound in the word "dog."

c)

Identifying the number of sounds in the word "catch."

d)

What word do you get if you say "cup" without the /k/?

23.

(Answer is a number) morphemes are in this sentence: "I'm eating two hamburgers."

(a)  

24.

True/False: Children with speech and/or language impairments can usually learn a new word in about the same number of trials (11.6) as their typically-developing peers.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

Which Brown's grammatical morpheme(s) is/are included in this sentence? "She is crying." (Select all that apply.)

a)

Present Progressive "-ing"

b)

Contractible copula ("is")

c)

Uncontractible auxiliary ("is")

d)

Contractible auxiliary ("is")

e)

Uncontractible copula ("is")

26.

Which Brown's grammatical morpheme(s) is/are included in this sentence? "We are determined." (Select all that apply.)

a)

Past tense "-ed"

b)

Contractible copula ("are")

c)

Uncontractible copula ("are")

d)

Contractible auxiliary ("are")

e)

Uncontractible auxiliary ("are")

27.

Which Brown's grammatical morpheme(s) is/are included in this sentence? "They are working moms."

a)

Plural "-s"

b)

Third-person singular "-s"

c)

Contractible auxiliary ("are")

d)

Contractible copula ("are")

28.

Which Brown's grammatical morpheme(s) is/are included in this sentence? "Samantha's dad takes me to school too."

a)

Plural "-s"

b)

Third person singular "-s"

c)

Possessive "-s"

d)

Irregular past tense

29.

A _____________ is a meaningful linguistic unit that can not be divided into smaller meaningful parts.

a)

phoneme

b)

grapheme

c)

morpheme

d)

diphthong

30.

Which of the following is involved in semantic development? (Select all that apply.)

a)

Building a lexicon

b)

Organizing the lexicon for efficient retrieval

c)

Pronouncing new words

d)

Learning new words

31.

The building blocks of ____________ ______________ involve acquiring inflectional and derivational morphemes.

a)

Pragmatic Development

b)

Phonological Development

c)

Syntactic Development

d)

Morphological Development

e)

Semantic Development

32.

Which of the following grammatical morpheme is acquired first by children who speak (only) English, according to Brown's Corpus Studies?

a)

Irregular third person

b)

Present Progressive "-ing"

c)

Irregular past tense

d)

Articles "a, the, an"

33.

Adding prefixes and suffixes pertains to the domain of which component of language development?

a)

Morphology

b)

Pragmatics

c)

Semantics

d)

Phonology

e)

Syntax

34.

What are the three main types of sentences (sentence modalities) used in daily communication? (Select all that apply.)

a)

Interrogative sentences

b)

Complaints

c)

Negative sentences

d)

Declarative sentences

35.

The ability to use a variety of sentence modalities is an example of _____________ _______________.

a)

Pragmatic Development

b)

Phonological Development

c)

Syntax Development

d)

Morphological Development

e)

Semantic Development

36.

Does the following sentence contain an "auxiliary" or "copula?" "Jenny and I are in the same grade."

a)

copula

b)

auxiliary

37.

Does the following sentence contain an "auxiliary" or "copula?" "Jenny and I are going to the same school."

a)

copula

b)

auxiliary