C-Units & SI Index
The equation for SI composite score
What is the number of clauses divided by the number of utterances?
Parenthetical marks are marked with
What are double parentheses?
The four types of language samples
What is conversational, narrative, expository, persuasive?
A gerund functions as
What is a noun?
Location of an asterisk for an omitted word.
What is before the word?
Included in C-units
What is an independent clause and its modifiers?
Abandoned utterances are marked with
What is > ?
Example of a prompt to elicit a conversational sample.
What is "Tell me about _______"?
**Note: "Tell me how to _____" can be used to elicit an expository sample
The seven coordinating conjunctions
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
The measure of syntactic complexity.
What is subordination index?
The number of c-units in the following text:
We were playing outside when it started to rain.
What is 1 utterance?
Used to mark speaker turn
What is C and E?
The type of language sample you would elicit for a young child with simple language.
What is conversational (or play) language sample?
Three examples of subordinating conjunctions
What is because, if, after, before, when, once, until, while, which, that?
**Note: "then" is an adverbial conjunct, not a conjunction
Transcribe a pause in the following utterances: "I like dinosaurs. *5 second pause* The tyrannosaurus rex is my favorite one.
What is:
C I like dinosaurs.
; :05
The tyrannosaurus rex is my favorite one.
The number of c-units in the following text:
My dog is named Sparky and my two rabbits are named Pokey and Snowball.
What are 2 utterances?
Convention for marking an unintelligible word.
What is X?
Narrative samples can analyze
What is story retell and story generation?
Joins dependent clauses to independent clauses
What is subordinating conjunctions?
**Note: coordinating conjunctions join independent clauses to independent clauses
The domains of language that can be analyzed with a SALT transcript.
What is form, content, and use (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics)?
The number of c-units in the following text: "Knead the dough so that it's nice and thin. Open the can of sauce and pour onto the dough."
What are 2 utterances?
Words mazed in the following utterance.
"One day a boy and the do* a dog went to the woods to look for frog to look for a frog."
What is: (the do*), (to look for frog) ?
The formula for MLUm
What is number of morphemes divided by number of utterances?
"Michael Phelps won the gold medal by training every day."
The word training is a _______.
What is a gerund?
Report that gives an overall summary of a speaker's language performance.
What is the standard measures report?