Brown’s morphemes and syntactic development | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

The last morphemes to emerge in Brown’s sequence are:

Contractible copula and contractible auxiliary

Present progressive –ing and plural –s

Prepositions in/on

Possessive –’s and articles

In syntactic development, the transition from two-word utterances to early sentences is accompanied by:

Increased use of function words

Reduced morpheme density

Elimination of bound morphemes

Single phoneme expansion

“Mommy is big” vs. “Mommy’s big” demonstrates the difference between:

Uncontractible and contractible copula

Auxiliary and copula

Possessive and plural

Tense and aspect

In Brown’s framework, Stage IV marks:

Emergence of complex sentences

Appearance of single words

Reduction of function words

Regression of morphemes

The MLU best represents:

Average morphemes per utterance

Number of words per minute

Average syllables per word

Number of utterances in a sample

Conjoining sentences with “and” appears first around:

Stage V

Stage IV

Stage lll

Stage ll

Children begin producing embedded clauses (“I want to go”) during:

Stage IV

Stage V

Stage lll

Stage ll

The sentence “She is not going” illustrates the use of:

Auxiliary and negation structures

Copula only

Adjective agreement

Ellipsis

The development of yes/no questions (e.g., “Is it big?”) occurs around:

Stage III–IV

Stage II

Stage V+

Stage I

Brown’s Stages I–V cover roughly what age range?

1.5 – 4 years

2 – 6 years

3 – 7 years

Birth – 2 years

By Stage V+, children typically master:

Complex and compound sentences

Single word utterances

Only nouns and verbs

Reduplication

Brown’s Stage V represents an MLU of approximately:

4.0+

2.0–2.5

2.5–3.0

3.0–3.75

“He’s running” exemplifies:

Contractible auxiliary

Contractible copula

Uncontractible copula

Uncontractible auxiliary

The uncontractible auxiliary (“He was playing”) is mastered:

Stage V

Stage IV

Stage lll

Stage ll

Uncontractible copula (“Who is she? She is the teacher.”) appears around:

Stage V

Stage lll

Stage IV

Stage ll

Contractible copula (“He’s happy”) appears during:

Stage V

Stage lll

stage ll

Stage l

“She jumps” demonstrates mastery of which morpheme?

Third-person singular –s

Regular past –ed

Contractible auxiliary

Plural –s

Regular past tense –ed generally develops in:

Stage IV

Stage lll

Stage ll

Stage l

The article “the” typically appears around:

Stage III–IV

Stage l

Stage V

Stage ll

Which Brown’s Stage includes irregular past tense?

Stage III

Stage l

Stage V

Stage ll

The morpheme possessive –’s emerges during:

Stage III

Stage II

Stage IV

Stage V

A child says, “Mommy cup.” This is an example of:

Possessive –’s omission (Stage II pattern)

Inflectional overgeneralization

Copula usage

Article substitution

Which of the following develops before possessive –’s?

Plural –s

Present progressive –ing

Auxiliary “be”

Third-person –s

A child who says “Doggie running” is demonstrating mastery of which morpheme?

Present progressive –ing

Regular past tense –ed

Third-person –s

Auxiliary “be”

In Brown’s Stage II, children’s sentences expand from two words to include:

Inflected verbs and prepositions

Complex sentences

Passive voice

Relative clauses

The prepositions “in” and “on” typically appear during:

Stage ll

Stage lll

Stage lV

Stage V

Which morpheme marks plural nouns and typically develops after –ing?

Regular plural –s

Possessive –’s

Third-person –s

Past tense –ed

Brown’s Stage II (MLU ≈ 2.0–2.5) is characterized by the emergence of:

Present progressive –ing, in, on, plural –s

Contractible copula

Irregular past tense

Articles a/the

The morpheme –ing (present progressive) typically appears first because it is:

Phonologically simple and frequently modeled

Tense-marked

Irregular

Semantically abstract

Which Brown’s Stage corresponds roughly to MLU 1.0–2.0 and consists mainly of single-word utterances and early word combinations?

Stage l

Stage ll

Stage lll

Stage V