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audragclark · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

According to Brown's guidelines for calculating a child's MLU, compound words such as birthday initially

a. should be counted as two morphemes
b. should be counted as a single morpheme
c. should be disregarded for purposes of determining MLU
d. should be weighted according to a formula based on the child's age

Question 2

What is metalinguistic knowledge? Give an example of a comment a child might make that would show that she has some metalinguistic awareness.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.