Chapter 6 Part 3

Question 1

Calculated based on the number of morphemes in an utterance

Answer 1

MLU

Question 2

How many morphemes are in the following sentence: The girls walked their dogs to the park

Answer 2

11

Question 3

How many morphemes are in the following sentence: My brothers were sitting on two benches

Answer 3

10

Question 4

MLU = __________

Answer 4

Total utterances divided by the number of phrases

Question 5

How many morphemes in “Mr. Bob”?

Answer 5

1; children think of it as 1 piece of information

Question 6

Predisposed to word learning; innate biases for word learning

Answer 6

Lexical principles

Question 7

Using social cues to learn new words

Answer 7

Social pragmatic framework

Question 8

Words that have a referent

Answer 8

Reference

Question 9

Words that label entire categories

Answer 9

Extendability

Question 10

Words represent objects, whole objects

Answer 10

Object scope

Question 11

What 3 things make up a Tier 1 lexical principle?

Answer 11

Reference, extendibility, object scope

Question 12

Words that are used in their community

Answer 12

Conventionality

Question 13

Choose word in the same category, rather than other features

Answer 13

Categorical scope

Question 14

Assign word to object without name

Answer 14

Novel name-nameless category

Question 15

What 3 things make up the tier 2 lexical principle?

Answer 15

Conventionality, categorical scope, novel name-nameless category

Question 16

Rapid learning of new words, associated with the growth spurt at age 2, high frequency words are mapped more easily, words in categories learned more easily; they hear the word, retrieve it from stored memory and use word comprehension

Answer 16

Fast-mapping

Question 17

Receptive lexicon by 24 months is ___ words

Answer 17

500

Question 18

Receptive lexicon by 36 months is ___ words

Answer 18

900

Question 19

Expressive lexicon at 18 - 20 months is ___ words

Answer 19

50

Question 20

Vocabulary burst is at ___ word mark

Answer 20

50

Question 21

Expressive lexicon by 24 months is ___ words

Answer 21

200

Question 22

Expressive lexicon by 36 months is ____ words

Answer 22

500