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Analyzing Gianna’s level of syntactic/morphological development and communicative competence

MORPHO-SYNTACTIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Calculate Gianna’s MLU, say in what stage of grammatical development she is, and whether this is appropriate for her age. Give examples of utterances with different morphemes and show that you can count them.

2. What type of sentences does Gianna produce? Are there more declaratives, negatives, or questions in the sample (provide exact numbers)? Are there complex sentences at all?

DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

3. Describe Gianna’s conversational skills. In particular, is she providing contingent, non-contingent or imitative responses? Who is doing the topic initiations and how? And how is s/he repairing miscommunications? Provide and interpret examples.

4. Are there examples of situationally-appropriate language? That is, does Gianna modify her language depending on who she is talking to? Provide and interpret examples.

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