Miscellaneous
Morphosyntax
Lexical Development
Pragmatics/Discourse
Metalinguistics
100
This dialect has the same phonetic inventory as Standard American English.
What is African American English?
100
These are Brown's earliest developing morphemes.
What are in, on, -ing, and plural -s?
100
This class of words makes up the majority of a child's first 50 words in their expressive vocabulary.
What are nouns?
100
This is the ability to relate a temporal sequence of real events experienced by the speaker.
What is a personal narrative?
100
Children use this cue first to interpret sarcasm.
What is intonation?
200
This is the state in which a child and adult attend to a third entity together.
What is joint attention?
200
MLU is no longer the best measure of syntax after it exceeds this number.
What is 5.0?
200
This is the age that children's speech is ~100% intelligible.
What is 4 years?
200
A narrative that includes linking words and sentences, such as temporal or causal conjunctions, is said to have this.
What is cohesion.
200
This is the ability to reflect upon language form and its arbitrary nature.
What is metalinguistic awareness?
300
This is the earliest form of ambiguity to develop in humor.
What is phonological ambiguity?
300
This is the speech that children hear around them to learn new words.
What is linguistic input?
300
This is the Gricean maxim of quantity.
What is being as informative as possible without giving too much information?
300
Rhyming and syllable segmentation are examples of this type of skill.
What is phonological awareness?
400
This is derived from the percentage of utterances containing at least 1 syntactic feature of a dialect.
What is the dialect density?
400
Brown's 14 morphemes are typically mastered by this age.
What is 48 months?
400
The learning of these types of words leads to accelerated vocabulary growth between 1st and 5th grade (Anglin, 1993).
What is derived words?
400
This is the ability to tell about events that happen at different time and place.
What is decontextualized language use?
400
This is the correspondence between written letters and spoken phonemes.
What is the Alphabetic Principle?
500
This describes the characteristics of discourse patterns in classrooms.
What is language of instruction?
500
This is the process of breaking down an unfamiliar word into its component parts to better understand its meaning.
What is morphological decomposition?
500
This is the age children start to combine words.
What is 24 months?
500
This is the flexible use of register, dialect, or language depending on the communication partner, the content, or the social situation.
What is code switching?
500
These words refer to the act of thinking.
What is metacognitive?
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