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Chapter 6 Part 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Child language researchers credit Roger Brown not only with documenting the orders and ages by which children acquire gramm. morphemes, but also with creating _______ ________ of ______ ________. | Brown's, Stages, Language, Development |
| Brown's stages characterize children's language achievements according to their ability to produce _________ of varying syntactic ________. | utterances, complexity |
| One measure of the complexity of children's language is their ______ ______ of _______ (MLU) | mean, length, utterance |
| MLU is calculated by counting the total number of ______ used in a sample of 50-100 spontaneous utterances by a children and then dividing by the total number of _______. | morphemes, utterances |
| MLU= ______ # of morphemes / total # of _______. | total, utterances |
| As children's language develops, their MLU increases s_________. | systematically |
| As a general standard, we calculate MLU using a language sample of ___ utterances or more to obtain a representative sample of what the child can produce. | 50 |
| How many utterances in the following sentence: "I want the ball." | 4 |
| 1 Utterance is = to __ statement. | 1 |
| Brown's Stage I is marked at age ___ months. The average MLU is ______. The MLU range is ___-___. Single word sentences are used. | 18, 1.31, .99-1.64 |
| Brown's Stage II is marked at age ___ months. The average MLU is ______. The MLU Range is ____-____. Nouns and uninflected verbs are used. "Mommy" and "eat" | 24, 1.92, 1.47-2.37 |
| Brown's Stage IIII is marked at age ___ months. The average MLU is 2.54. The MLU range is ____-_____. Three element sentences are used "baby want cookie" | 30, 2.54, 1.97-3.11 |
| Brown's stage IV is marked at age ____ months. The average MLU is 3.16. The MLU range is _____-____. Four element sentences are used. | 36, 3.16, 2.47-3.85 |
| Brown's stage V is marked at age ___ months. Average MLU is ______. MLU range is ____-___. Connecting devices emerge (and) and (because) | 42, 3.78, 2.96-4.60 |
| Brown's stage Post-V is marked at age ____ months. The average MLU is ____. The MLU range is _____> "She's not feeling well." | 56, 5.02, 3.96-6.08 |
| Roger Brown's 1973: Rules for counting morphemes states: Start with the second page of the r______. | recitation. |
| Roger Brown's 1973: Rules for counting morphemes states: Count the first ______ utterances satisfying rules | utterances |