Watch the provided video “Cutest Talking Toddler” Review the instructions below on how to count morphemes

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Directions for Assignment

1. Watch the provided video “Cutest Talking Toddler” https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=2uaBTKes0Ok&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fusflearn.instructure.com%2Fcourses%2F1859392%2Fassignments%2F15600309&source_ve_path=MTM5MTE3LDEzOTExNywyODY2Ng&feature=emb_logo
2. Review the instructions below on how to count morphemes
3. Using the provided language sample from the video, count the morphemes for each utterance and write them in the provided form (A)
4. Calculate the toddler’s MLU and identify the corresponding Brown’s Stage of Grammatical Morphemes and write those answers in the provided box (B)
5. Using the information and examples regarding Type Token Ratio from the lecture, analyze the child’s work types and fill out the provided form. You MUST categorize each word correctly and provide the correct number of occurrences that the child used the word for full points. ©
6. Calculate the child’s Type Token Ratio (D)
7. Upload this entire packet to Canvas to be graded

How to Count Morphemes

• Repeated words (e.g., no, no, no) count as individual morphemes (in the example, 3 morphemes)
• Responses (like yes, yeah, no) and greetings (hi) are morphemes
• Compound words, proper names, and ritualized reduplications count as single words. Examples: birthday, rackety-boom, choo-choo, quack-quack, right-right, pocketbook, see saw. This is done because there is no evidence to confirm that children perceive and use these as separate morphemes.
• Irregular past tense of verbs (got, did, went, saw) count as one morpheme because there is no evidence that children relate these to their present tense versions.
• Diminutives (doggie, Mommie) are counted as one morpheme also.
• Auxiliaries are counted as separate morphemes (will, is, have, can, must, would)
• Catenatives count as one morpheme (gonna, hafta, wanna)
• Inflections are counted as separate morphemes (that is, each word that contains one of these would be counted as having two morphemes):

1. The –s plural marker (e.g. cat/s, apple/s). Count it even when used on irregular plurals (e.g. mouse/s).
2. The –ed past tense marker (walk/ed, count/ed). The –ed morpheme is counted even when used improperly (go/ed, drink/ed).
3. The –ing progressive tense marker (walk/ ing, count/ing).
4. The –s third person present tense marker (e.g.  He like/s candy. Sue walk/s fast/er than Sara.) Exception: “does” counts as one morpheme.
5. Possessive –‘s marker (e.g. mom’s, boy’s)
6. Contractions (e.g. she’s, he’ll, they’re, what’s, she’d, we’ve, can’t, aren’t). Exceptions: “let’s,” “don’t”, and “won’t” are assumed to be understood as single units, rather than as a contraction of two words, so are just counted as one morpheme.
7. The superlative/comparative (er, est) marker.  (e.g. She walk/s fast/er than Sara).

DO NOT COUNT

1. Do not count fillers (e.g., um, well, oh).
2. Do not count words which are false starts, reformulations, or repetitions unless the repetition is for emphasis.  (e.g. “[then] then [he go] he went to the zoo” is counted as 6 morphemes; “No! No! No!” is counted as 3)
3. Any utterance that is partially unintelligible