Which Brown’s Stage corresponds roughly to MLU 1.0–2.0 and consists mainly of single-word utterances and early word combinations?
Stage V
Stage l
Stage lll
Stage ll
The morpheme –ing (present progressive) typically appears first because it is:
Semantically abstract
Phonologically simple and frequently modeled
Irregular
Tense-marked
Brown’s Stage II (MLU ≈ 2.0–2.5) is characterized by the emergence of:
Articles a/the
Present progressive –ing, in, on, plural –s
Irregular past tense
Contractible copula
Which morpheme marks plural nouns and typically develops after –ing?
Possessive –’s
Third-person –s
Past tense –ed
Regular plural –s
The prepositions “in” and “on” typically appear during:
Stage V
Stage lV
Stage lll
Stage ll
In Brown’s Stage II, children’s sentences expand from two words to include:
Complex sentences
Relative clauses
Passive voice
Inflected verbs and prepositions
A child who says “Doggie running” is demonstrating mastery of which morpheme?
Auxiliary “be”
Regular past tense –ed
Third-person –s
Present progressive –ing
Which of the following develops before possessive –’s?
Third-person –s
Auxiliary “be”
Plural –s
Present progressive –ing
A child says, “Mommy cup.” This is an example of:
Possessive –’s omission (Stage II pattern)
Inflectional overgeneralization
Article substitution
Copula usage
The morpheme possessive –’s emerges during:
Stage III
Stage II
Stage IV
Stage V
Which Brown’s Stage includes irregular past tense?
Stage l
Stage V
Stage ll
Stage III
The article “the” typically appears around:
Stage l
Stage V
Stage ll
Stage III–IV
Regular past tense –ed generally develops in:
Stage lll
Stage IV
Stage ll
Stage l
“She jumps” demonstrates mastery of which morpheme?
Regular past –ed
Contractible auxiliary
Plural –s
Third-person singular –s
Contractible copula (“He’s happy”) appears during:
Stage V
Stage lll
stage ll
Stage l
Uncontractible copula (“Who is she? She is the teacher.”) appears around:
Stage V
Stage lll
Stage IV
Stage ll
