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The focus of Chapter 9 is the development of phonological skills, syntax and morphology in the preschool aged child. Great changes occur in the child’s ability to speak in multiple word utterances and use a variety of sentence types such as negation and question forms. This chapter describes the Brown’s Stages and use of mean length of utterance in morphemes (MLU) as a tool to measure development of grammar. In addition this chapter discusses the development of conjoining and embedding as more advanced language develops.

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Outline the Brown’s Stages of Morphological Development with their correlating MLU and general chronological age.

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Trace the development of the interrogative form through the Five Brown’s Stages.

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What is the difference between the terms conjoining and embedding when referring to sentence development?

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A relative clause is one that typically

modifies the infinitive verbmodifies the auxiliary verbmodifies the nounmodifies the participial phrase

Mean length of utterance measured in morphemes is appropriate for children up to the mean length of how many morphemes per utterance?

4 morphemes per utterance3 morphemes per utterance1 morpheme per utterance2 morphemes per utterance

If a child wants to indicate denial, what sentence form will he/she use?

negationdeclarativeimperativeinterrogative

The Brown’s Stages are stages dealing primarily with the development of what?

syntaxmorphologysemanticspragmatics

Beginning of declarative sentence type use is the use of what forms?

use of indirect objects use of semantic relationships such as agent + actionuse of auxiliaries verb formsuse of copula verb forms

The very first type of interrogative utterance is produced

with a wh question wordwith interrogative reversal of subject and predicatewith rising intonation onlywith tag questions

The main characteristic in development in Brown's Stage two is

semantic relations such as agent + objectsingle word utterancesphrase embeddingbeginning of morphological development

An interrogative is

an imperative sentencealways marked by reversal of auxiliary and main verba questiona negative sentence

	MLU in morphemes is an extremely sensitive measure of a young child’s language development

	True False

	Irregular past tense verbs such as ‘rode’ are counted as 2 morphemes when determining an MLU.

	True False

	A phrase can be either dependent or independent.
	A phrase can be either dependent or independent.
	True False

	Cluster reduction is a phonological process used by a large number of preschool children. This process is described as being at the syllable level as opposed to a process involved in sound assimilations or substitutions.

	True False

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Practice Test

Outline the Brown’s Stages of Morphological Development with their correlating MLU and general chronological age.

Trace the development of the interrogative form through the Five Brown’s Stages.

What is the difference between the terms conjoining and embedding when referring to sentence development?

A relative clause is one that typically

Mean length of utterance measured in morphemes is appropriate for children up to the mean length of how many morphemes per utterance?

If a child wants to indicate denial, what sentence form will he/she use?

The Brown’s Stages are stages dealing primarily with the development of what?

Beginning of declarative sentence type use is the use of what forms?

The very first type of interrogative utterance is produced

The main characteristic in development in Brown's Stage two is

An interrogative is

MLU in morphemes is an extremely sensitive measure of a young child’s language development

Irregular past tense verbs such as ‘rode’ are counted as 2 morphemes when determining an MLU.

A phrase can be either dependent or independent.

Cluster reduction is a phonological process used by a large number of preschool children. This process is described as being at the syllable level as opposed to a process involved in sound assimilations or substitutions.