ESA: Narratives & Pragmatics
ESA: Morphosyntax
ESA: Semantics & Phonology
Literacy
MLU/Misc.
100

What kind of narratives are told most by 5 and 6 year olds?

personal anecdotal

100

give 3 examples of derivational morphemes

-ity, un-, -less etc...

100

For the 2nd vocabulary spurt, what kind of words have the greatest growth?

derived words

100

Literacy is a ____ skill.

language

100

MLU is calculated by_____.

# of morphemes/# of total utterances

200

By what grade to children begin using beginning and ending markers in fictional stories?

2nd Grade

200

A relative clause immediately follows a ___.

noun

200

"burning the candle at both ends" is an example of an ______________ and is mastered around 9-10 years of age

idiom

200

What are the 4 phases of reading according to Ehri (2005)?

pre-alphabetic

partial-alphabetic

full alphabetic

consolidated alphabetic 

200

What type of sentence is this?

Blake went to the park and he played with his friends.

compound sentence

300

What are a few characteristics of older children's narratives?

-fewer unresolved problems and unprepared resolutions

-less extraneous details

-more complex episode structure

-closer adherence to the story grammar model

300

What is a phrase?

a unit that does not contain a subject or predicate, is less than a sentence

300
What is morphophonemic development?

understanding sound changes based on morpheme combination (i.e. electric---> electricity)

300

When do children start to read for pleasure?

4th Grade

300

Identify the syntactic structures present in this sentence:

Leah went to the store that had new labubus.

Independent clause

Relative clause

Embedded clause

Prepositional phrase

400

what is coherence?

what makes a narrative a well-developed story, including a sequence of related events which create meaning in a story

400

What type of sentence seems to be the hardest for kids to learn?

Passives
400

by around 11 years old, defiitions are more __________________like

adult-like, dictionary-like

400

______________ language is more naturally learned through exposure and experience. It is not effortful

Oral

400

What do you do at the end of a sentence to indicate it is a question?

Rising intonation

500

What are the elements of story grammar?

hint: there are 8

characters, setting, problem, feelings, plan, actions, outcome, ending

500

What is metalinguistics?

the abiity to think about language as a thing and manipulate its components (i.e. words, syllables, phrases).

500

What is slow mapping?

acquisition and integration of adult-like semantic features into the semantic network comprising a word definition

500

What is morphological awareness?

used to process written text, understand meaning of new words encountered in print by combining grammatical units

500

Compare oral language to written language

Oral language is: universal, more contextualized, a primary language skill

Written language is: an artifact of humans, more decontextualized, not universal

600

TRUE or FALSE : By 11/12 years of age, development of cognitive and communicative skills are almost equal to an adult

True

600

Kids in the US are able to comprehend and produce most sentence types by what age?

5

600

During the 2nd vocabulary spurt, the least amount of growth is seen in _____________.

idioms

600



600

__________ are categories of items, _____________ are centered around an event

taxonomies; thematic

700

By age _____________, children produce and comprehend "this, those, that, these, etc."

age 7

700

Give an example of the instrumental -er (turns a verb into a thing)

print + er (printer), blend + er (blender)

700

At what age are all phonemes represented?

6 years 11 months

700

Background knowledge, vocabulary, language structures, verbal reasoning, literacy knowledge, phonological awareness, decoding, and sight recognition are all needed for _____.

skilled reading

700

Which part of language increases in complexity until adulthood and then stabilizes?

morphosyntax