CD 228: EXAM 2 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

CD 228: EXAM 2 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. Free Morphemes
Answer:
words that can stand alone

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2. Bound Morphemes
Answer:
meaningful units that are added to words

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3. Derivational Morphemes
Answer:
added to the word to change the class or category of the word

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4. Inflectional Morphemes
Answer:
make grammatical adjustments to words, only suffixes

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5. MLU
Answer:
mean length of utterance

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6. How do you calculate the MLU?
Answer:
total number of morphemes/total number of utterances

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7. What are Brown's 14 grammatical morphemes?
Answer:
Present progressive, preposition in, preposition on, regular plural s, irregular past tense, possessive s,
uncontactable copula, articles, regular past tense ed, regular third person singular s, irregular third person
singular, uncontactable auxiliary, contractible copula, contractible auxiliary

Question:
8. What is Present Progressive?
Answer:
signifies an action in progress with ing

, Question:
9. What is Preposition In?
Answer:
when the word in is in a sentence

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10. What is Preposition On?
Answer:
when the word on is in a sentence

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11. What is Regular Plural S?
Answer:
adding an s to a word to make it mean multiple of that word

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12. What is Irregular Past Tense?
Answer:
changing almost the entire word to make it past tense

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13. What is Possessive S?
Answer:
adding an 's to signify a noun belongs to someone or something

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14. What is an Uncontactable Copula?
Answer:
am, is, are, was, were used as the main verb in the sentence and it cannot be used as a contraction

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15. What are Articles?
Answer:
using a or the in a sentence

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16. What is Regular Past Tense ed?
Answer:
adding ed to the end of the word to make it past tense

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17. What is Regular Third Person Singular s?
Answer:
adding s to show a person other than the two communicating is doing something