24-36 Months Language Development Flashcards
True or False:
At 24-36 months, Children can follow 2-part directions
TRUE
How many words can a 24-36 month old typically understand?
300-1000 words
A 24-36 month old typically USES only about
150-300 words, while understanding 300-1000
A child can be expected to be consistently using 2 word phrases when they are __-__ months old
24-36 months
Brown and Associates at Harvard conducted a ______ study that developed the system of ____________ to track linguistic development
long term study, mean length utterances
How many grammatical morphemes did Brown identify
14 grammatical morphemes
MLU stands for:
Mean length of utterance
MLU is calculated by:
dividing the total number of morphemes spoken by the total number of utterances (sentences or phrases) spoken
at ~ ___ months old, children start using grammatical morphemes
~27 months old
What are grammatical morphemes
Inflections added to words to indicate an aspect of grammar
True or False:
“ing”, prepositions “in” and “on”, and the plural “s” are early developing
TRUE, this is developed typically from 24-30 months old
Irregular past tense verbs, and possessive “s” is usually learned around what age?
30-36 months old
When ~___ of a child’s sentences contain 2 or more words they __________
1/2, they begin to use 3 word sentences
At what age can you expect a child to start telling stories
24-36 months, although they are hard to follow
At what age can you expect a child to take MULTIPLE turns in a longer conversation?
3 years old
