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WorksheetsThe Five Components of Language
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 24mins
Which of the following would we look at to examine a child's syntactic development?
Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)
Turn-Taking Skills
Vocabulary Diversity
Phonological Processes
Which of the following is part of the development of pragmatic skills? (Select all that apply.)
Acquiring communication functions
Learning new words.
Developing conversational skills
Developing a sensitivity to extralinguistic cues
True/False: Vowels are acquired before consonants; different consonants are mastered at different times (ages).
True
False
_________ __________ refers to the internalization of the rules for using prefixes and suffixes.
(a)
__________ ___________ change the syntactic class of a word.
(a)
True/False: Inflectional morphemes do not change the part of speech of a word.
True
False
__________ ___________ make a (-n affirmative) statement.
(a)
_________ __________ involve the act of questioning.
(a)
Which of the following are examples of minimal pairs? (Select all that apply.)
Sue/zoo
Sue/shoe
pet/peck
four/for
True/False: Phonological awareness is the ability to attend to the phonological units of speech.
True
False
Which of the following can serve as a proxy for estimating syntactic complexity?
Number of meaningful units
Appropriate use of pronouns
Ability to repair communication break downs
Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)
Which of the following sentences contain embedded clauses? (Select all that apply.)
Mikey and I are going to the game.
The lady who won the context was our principal.
Who left the dishes in the sink?
We will use the picture that got the most "likes" on Facebook for our yearbook cover.
Which of the following sentences contain conjoined clauses? (Select all that apply.)
Mom will go to the store, and Dad will stay home.
I would have gone to the party, but I didn't have a ride.
That's the toy that Mommy gave me.
The students may write a thesis, or they may take the comprehensive exam.
The _______ ________ _________ hypothesis emphasizes that the grammatical properties of children's language use depend on exposure to the properties in Child-Directed Speech (CDS).
(a)
Let's see if you can make a connection:)! The "Learning-From-Input" hypothesis best belongs to which school of thought in language development?
nature-inspired theories/theorists
nurture-inspired theories/theorists
Which process does this example best describe?
Hearing the word "bird," activates words like "wings, robin, canary" in the semantic network.
Extralinguistic Activation
Focused Activation
Spreading Activation
Cognitive Activation
Which of the following are examples of join attention? (Select all that apply.)
Baby stacks blocks while mom puts the dolls to bed.
Mom says, "Look!" Baby and mom both look at the puppy together then baby looks up at mom.
Baby is looking at a book about zoo animals while mom reads a book about Michelle Obama.
Mom asks, "What should we feed Kitty?" Baby puts cheerios in front of Kitty and looks at mom.
True/False: According to ASHA norms, 2-year-olds are approximately 10% intelligible.
True
False
(a) teaches the relationships between letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes).
(a) sentences express negation and rely on such words as "no, not, can't, don't," and "won't."
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?
Phonics
Graphology
Phonological Awareness
Syntactic Complexity
Which of the following are examples of phonemic awareness tasks? (Select all that apply.)
Identifying the first sound in the word "cat."
Identifying the last sound in the word "dog."
Identifying the number of sounds in the word "catch."
What word do you get if you say "cup" without the /k/?
(Answer is a number) morphemes are in this sentence: "I'm eating two hamburgers."
(a)
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.
True
False
Which Brown's grammatical morpheme(s) is/are included in this sentence? "She is crying." (Select all that apply.)
Present Progressive "-ing"
Contractible copula ("is")
Uncontractible auxiliary ("is")
Contractible auxiliary ("is")
Uncontractible copula ("is")
Which Brown's grammatical morpheme(s) is/are included in this sentence? "We are determined." (Select all that apply.)
Past tense "-ed"
Contractible copula ("are")
Uncontractible copula ("are")
Contractible auxiliary ("are")
Uncontractible auxiliary ("are")
Which Brown's grammatical morpheme(s) is/are included in this sentence? "They are working moms."
Plural "-s"
Third-person singular "-s"
Contractible auxiliary ("are")
Contractible copula ("are")
Which Brown's grammatical morpheme(s) is/are included in this sentence? "Samantha's dad takes me to school too."
Plural "-s"
Third person singular "-s"
Possessive "-s"
Irregular past tense
A _____________ is a meaningful linguistic unit that can not be divided into smaller meaningful parts.
phoneme
grapheme
morpheme
diphthong
Which of the following is involved in semantic development? (Select all that apply.)
Building a lexicon
Organizing the lexicon for efficient retrieval
Pronouncing new words
Learning new words
The building blocks of ____________ ______________ involve acquiring inflectional and derivational morphemes.
Pragmatic Development
Phonological Development
Syntactic Development
Morphological Development
Semantic Development
Which of the following grammatical morpheme is acquired first by children who speak (only) English, according to Brown's Corpus Studies?
Irregular third person
Present Progressive "-ing"
Irregular past tense
Articles "a, the, an"
Adding prefixes and suffixes pertains to the domain of which component of language development?
Morphology
Pragmatics
Semantics
Phonology
Syntax
What are the three main types of sentences (sentence modalities) used in daily communication? (Select all that apply.)
Interrogative sentences
Complaints
Negative sentences
Declarative sentences
The ability to use a variety of sentence modalities is an example of _____________ _______________.
Pragmatic Development
Phonological Development
Syntax Development
Morphological Development
Semantic Development
Does the following sentence contain an "auxiliary" or "copula?" "Jenny and I are in the same grade."
copula
auxiliary
Does the following sentence contain an "auxiliary" or "copula?" "Jenny and I are going to the same school."
copula
auxiliary
