The Five Components of Language

Which of the following would we look at to examine a child's syntactic development?

• Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)

• Turn-Taking Skills

• Vocabulary Diversity

• Phonological Processes

Which of the following is part of the development of pragmatic skills? (Select all that apply.)

• Acquiring communication functions

• Learning new words.

• Developing conversational skills

• Developing a sensitivity to extralinguistic cues

True/False: Vowels are acquired before consonants; different consonants are mastered at different times (ages).

• True

• False

_________ __________ refers to the internalization of the rules for using prefixes and suffixes.

(a)  

__________ ___________ change the syntactic class of a word.

(a)  

True/False: Inflectional morphemes do not change the part of speech of a word.

• True

• False

__________ ___________ make a (-n affirmative) statement.

(a)  

_________ __________ involve the act of questioning.

(a)  

Which of the following are examples of minimal pairs? (Select all that apply.)

• Sue/zoo

• Sue/shoe

• pet/peck

• four/for

True/False: Phonological awareness is the ability to attend to the phonological units of speech.

• True

• False