It's No (Verb) Relation
What is a verb relation?
A verb relation is a content/form interaction that requires a verb (either included or implied by context).
Provide the content category and number of major constituents for the following phrase:
"What is this?"
Category: Existence
No. of major constituents: 3
For the category temporal, please give an example of a phrase that you would code as temporal.
"I see Daddy"; "look at that"
What is the expected number of constituents vs. the included number of constituents?
Expected: the number of constituents necessary for context in the given language
Included: what is actually produced by the child
One of the elements of vocabulary learning involves the perception and identification of sounds and the formation of ____________ _______________.
phonological representations
Give an example of a verb relation with the verb included, and the same verb relation with the verb itself implied by context.
Verb included: "doggy loves bone"
Verb implied: "doggy bone"
Provide the content category and number of major constituents for the following phrase:
"Put dog in here"
Content category: Locative action
No. of major constituents: 3
For the category notice/perception, please give an example of a phrase that you would code as notice/perception.
"I sitting down"; "I did bath"; "this goes here"
For the content category action, how many words and/or constituents are we looking for in phases 2 and 3? (two different answers, one for each phase)
Phase 2: 2 constituents ("eat apple"; "I eat")
Phase 3: 3 constituents ("I eat apple")
T/F: Children with SLI (specific language impairment) can typically identify concepts that words express, but maintain an expressive word problem.
True!
T/F: verb relations do not need to include three grammatical constituents (subject/verb/compliment).
True! They are required to include at least two.
Provide the content category and number of major constituents for the following phrase:
"is dirty"
Content category: Attributive state
No. of major constituents: 2
In Phase 4, we are looking to see a verb relation (at least 2 constituents) + what?
one or more nonverb categories (nonexistence, recurrence, rejection, denial, attribution, possession, quantity, temporal, specification, dative)
Give the number of expected and included constituents for the following interaction:
Adult: What are you doing?
Child: Fixing car.
Expected: 2 ("fixing the car" is an acceptable response, and the article "the" is not a constituent utterance)
Included: 2
For children with SLI, word retrieval difficulty may be due to inadequate perception and/or memory of sound sequences of words, or ____________ representation, or insufficient knowledge of concepts or features that word represents, or ________ representation.
1. phonological
2. semantic
Which one of the following phrases is a verb relation?
"More play"
"Mommy stroller"
"Mommy stroller" (it has two constituents, a subject and an object/compliment) - "More play" contains only a verb ("more" is not a subject or a compliment")
Provide the content category and number of major constituents for the following phrase:
"here is bed"
Content category: Locative state
No. of major constituents: 3
Give one example each for:
content category action + attribution,
content category action + nonexistence,
content category action + volition/intention
"I eat yummy cookie"
"The juice is all gone"
"I wanna go play"
Included/expected = level of achievement. Therefore, if we have four examples where three constituents were necessary for context and the child produced two, what is the level of achievement?
included = 2 instances (of 3 constituents uttered)
expected = 4 instances (of 3 constituents uttered)
2/4 = 50% achievement
If a child scores below the normal range on standardized comprehension tests, check the following important word classes in the child's environment:
1. Words for common objects, body parts, locations
2. Question words (who, what, where, etc.)
3. Spatial prepositions (over, under, around, etc.)
4. Verbs
T/F: If a child produces a two-word utterance and one of the words is a verb, it is always considered to be a verb relation.
False! Phrases such as "no drink" and "more push" do not have two constituents.
Provide the content category and number of major constituents for the following phrase:
"My bottle"
Content category: Possession
No. of major constituents: N/A (It doesn't contain a verb relation!)
"I am going skating now" is an example of what combination of phase 4 content categories?
action ("I am...skating") + temporal ("going...now")
Give the number of expected and included constituents for the following interaction:
Adult: Whose truck is this?
Child: That my truck.
Expected: 3 (verb relation of at least two constituents + nonverb category(ies)). We are expecting a verb relation + possession.
Included: 2 (Because the child included the word "that", we then need the copula (connecting word) "is", which we didn't get.
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