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1
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What are the three domains of language?

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Form, content, use

2
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What makes up form?

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phonology, morphology, syntax

3
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What makes up content?

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semantics

4
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What makes up use?

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Pragmatics

5
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What refers to where the articulators approximate each other to create a sound source for consonants?

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Place of articulation

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What refers to how the sound is modified along the vocal tract for consonants?

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Manner of articulation

7
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What refers to the presence or absence of vocal fold vibration when producing sounds?

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Voicing

8
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Describe place, manner, & voicing of /b/

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  1. bilabial
  2. stop
  3. voiced
9
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Describe place, manner, & voicing of /h/

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  1. glottal
  2. fricative
  3. unvoiced
10
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How are vowels characterized?

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  1. tongue height
  2. tongue advancement
  3. tension or lax
11
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What is overgeneralization?

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A type of semantic error: saying “ball” for “moon” indicating a child thinks a word meaning is more broadly applied

12
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What is undergeneralization?

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only saying the child’s dog is “dog” but not other dogs indicates a child thinks a word’s meaning is too restricted or narrow

13
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Early language development & vocabulary is comprised primarily of what?

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nouns

14
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When do children begin to acquire verbs?

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24 months

15
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What is a free morpheme?

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those that stand alone and carry meaning (e.g., tree, house, dog, milk)

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What is a bound morpheme?

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must be combined to a free morpheme in order to be meaningful (e.g., -s, -ing)

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What are the two types of affixes?

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Prefixes & suffixes

18
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How is MLU calculated?

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total number of free & bound morphemes/total number of utterances