Components of language - Answers 1. Form
2. Use
3. Content
Components of form - Answers 1. Phonology
2. Morphology
3. Syntax
Components of use - Answers Pragmatics
Components of content - Answers Semantics
Language differences - Answers 1. Dialects
2. Bilingualism
3. Gender
4. Genetics
5. Language learning environment
Language disorder causes - Answers 1. Heritable
2. Developmental disability
3. Brain injury
Phonological components - Answers 1. Segment streams of speech
2. Phonemic inventory
3. Phonological awareness
Segment streams of speech - Answers Cues to segment the speech stream
Morphology - Answers Rules that govern the structure of words
Grammatical morphemes - Answers Change grammar
Bound morphemes - Answers Cannot stand alone grammatically
Derivational morphemes - Answers Change syntactic class or meaning
, Free morphemes - Answers Stand alone
Obligatory context - Answers Grammatical adult form would use this kind of morpheme
Mastery of morpheme - Answers Correct 75% of obligatory context
Morphological building blocks - Answers 1. Grammatical morphemes
2. Bound morphemes
3. Free morphemes
Syntactic building blocks - Answers 1. Increase utterance length
2. Increase sentence variety
3. Development of complete syntax
Sentence types - Answers 1. Declarative
2. Negative
3. Interoggative
Development of complete syntax - Answers 1. Word
2. Phrase
3. Clause
4. Sentence
average morpheme length of 3.5 - Answers Emergence of complex sentences occurs when
children have an _______
Semantic building blocks - Answers 1. Acquire mental lexicon
2. Acquire new words rapidly
3. Semantic network
Pragmatic building blocks - Answers 1. Communication functions
2. Conversation skills
3. Sensitivity to extra-linguistic cues
Types of language impairments - Answers 1. Specific
2. Secondary