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Unit 6.2 DB: Morphological Analysis

Unit 6.2 DB: Morphological Analysis

Q In your readings this week, Roger Brown described five stages of language development based on MLU. In thinking about the stages, most children are able to use most of the variations in the English language by age 5. Perform a morphological analysis using one of the language samples provided. Discuss whether you believe this child is on target or should be referred for further evaluation. Support your premise using the unit resources.

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A child must accurately segment words into morphemes and organize words into semantic classes in order to learn morphology. Based on the mean length in utterances (MLU), which is the number of morphemes (smallest unit of meaning) that children can produce, Robert proposes five stages of child language acquisition. I have analyzed the 35-month-old transcript.