In this sentence, "He was walking home," the BE verb is functioning as this type of verb.
What is an auxiliary?
100
These are three early types of communicative functions.
What are protesting, requesting, and commenting?
100
This is the type of error a child made in the sentence, "She likes her daddy hat."
What is morphological?
100
For most children, the earliest conjoining of sentences begin with this conjoiner.
What is "and"?
100
This is the rule-based area of language that dictates how we combine words, phrases, and clauses.
What is syntax?
200
This is how many morphemes are in the following sentence, "She runs every day."
What are 5 morphemes?
200
WARNING: Actually a discourse question!
This type of discourse is used to inform or explain.
What is expository?
200
These types of morphemes can stand alone as words.
What are free morphemes?
200
This is the narrative device that links elements together.
What is cohesion?
200
This analysis would classify the following child production, "More juice," as a request under which domain of language?
What are pragmatics?
300
In the sentence, "I am studying with my friends," "with my friends" is this type of phrase.
What is a prepositional phrase?
300
In the article by Iverson and Goldin-Meadow, this type of speech plus gesture combinations best predicted the emergence of spoken two-word combinations.
What is supplementary?
300
These types of morphemes cannot stand alone.
What are bound morphemes?
300
In the development of negative sentence forms, which type of negative markers develop first?
What are external negative markers?
300
This is the formula for calculating MLU.
What is # of morphemes/# of utterances?
400
This type of inflectional morpheme indicates the time between the speech time and the event time (e.g., -ed).
What is tense?
400
This type of negative marker appear in the proper syntactic position within a sentence, but are still child-like (e.g., I no want envelope).
What are internal negative markers?
400
These are the smallest units that carry linguistic meaning.
What are morphemes?
400
This is how old children are when they combine words.
What is 24 months?
400
Of Brown's 14 morphemes, the earliest wave of 4 early developing morphemes is mastered by this age.
What is 36 months?
500
This type of inflectional morpheme relates to the internal temporal characteristics of an event, its duration or progress toward completion (e.g., progressive -ing).
What is aspect?
500
Using negative markers (e.g., no and not), but not within the sentence (e.g., wear mitten no) is known as this type of negative marker.
What is an external negative marker?
500
As negative sentences move from child-like to adult-like, which element appears last developmentally?
What are auxiliary verbs?
500
These are all examples of behavioral regulation speech acts (Wetherby, 1988).
What are requesting actions/object/comfort?
500
The second wave of Brown's later developing morphemes is mastered at this age.