SLHS 4520 Exam 1 Questions and Answers Latest Version 2025 Graded A+
What is critical for the SLP to know? - Answers Knowledge of developmental milestones
What is involved in language assessment? - Answers - Functional communication (natural
communication)
- Formal Assessment (language sample, observation)
- Reports
- Observations
- NL vs. Delay (6 month delay, etc.) vs. Disorder (more problems, patterns, disorders, etc.)
- Goals (what are you working towards)
Describe development - Answers - Predictable and sequential (crawling before walking)
- Emerge or master within a specific timeframe
- Relationship between motor development (gross and fine motor) and cognitive development ((play
(18-24 months), gesture, memory, and attention))
What is the definition of language? - Answers - Language is a complex (not simple) and dynamic
(changing) system of conventional symbols used in various modes for thought and communication -
ASHA
What represents "symbols"? - Answers - Speech (sounds)
- Written symbols (text, writing)
- Manual symbols (ASL)
- Iconic (augmentative ex: picture board) (pictures)
Describe language conventions - Answers - Rule governed (English vs. Spanish rules differ)
- Adjectives follow nouns in Spanish
What are the 3 language descriptions? - Answers form, content, and use
What are the language domains? - Answers Content
- semantics
Form
- phonology
, - morphology
- syntax
Use
- pragmatics
What is phonology? - Answers - the sound system of the language
- smallest unit of language that overlays the meaning of motoric movements of speech
- IPA (international phonetic alphabet)
What is morphology? - Answers - smallest unit of language that expresses meaning
- Bound-free or root words vs. Bound
(Dog vs. dogs) (pass vs. passed)
- Prefixes and suffixes (pretest, softly)
- Free: can understand on it's own
- Bound: needs to be bound to another word to make sense
- Inflectional bound: "ed", plural "s" (changing tense)
- Derivational bound: "pre" in "pretest"; and quickly (changes part of speech or creating new word
meaning)
What is syntax? - Answers - sentence level structure of language that marks relationships between rules
and ideas
- Declarative
- Interrogative
- Imperative
- Negative: My brother didn't walk the dog
- Passive: the dog was fed by my mother
- Conjoined: My brother and sister take turns walking the dog
- Clausal Embedding: My sister walks the dog (that lives next door) - doesn't make sense on its own
What is semantics? - Answers - the meaning of the language consists of 2 types of info.: lexical and
conceptual
What is critical for the SLP to know? - Answers Knowledge of developmental milestones
What is involved in language assessment? - Answers - Functional communication (natural
communication)
- Formal Assessment (language sample, observation)
- Reports
- Observations
- NL vs. Delay (6 month delay, etc.) vs. Disorder (more problems, patterns, disorders, etc.)
- Goals (what are you working towards)
Describe development - Answers - Predictable and sequential (crawling before walking)
- Emerge or master within a specific timeframe
- Relationship between motor development (gross and fine motor) and cognitive development ((play
(18-24 months), gesture, memory, and attention))
What is the definition of language? - Answers - Language is a complex (not simple) and dynamic
(changing) system of conventional symbols used in various modes for thought and communication -
ASHA
What represents "symbols"? - Answers - Speech (sounds)
- Written symbols (text, writing)
- Manual symbols (ASL)
- Iconic (augmentative ex: picture board) (pictures)
Describe language conventions - Answers - Rule governed (English vs. Spanish rules differ)
- Adjectives follow nouns in Spanish
What are the 3 language descriptions? - Answers form, content, and use
What are the language domains? - Answers Content
- semantics
Form
- phonology
, - morphology
- syntax
Use
- pragmatics
What is phonology? - Answers - the sound system of the language
- smallest unit of language that overlays the meaning of motoric movements of speech
- IPA (international phonetic alphabet)
What is morphology? - Answers - smallest unit of language that expresses meaning
- Bound-free or root words vs. Bound
(Dog vs. dogs) (pass vs. passed)
- Prefixes and suffixes (pretest, softly)
- Free: can understand on it's own
- Bound: needs to be bound to another word to make sense
- Inflectional bound: "ed", plural "s" (changing tense)
- Derivational bound: "pre" in "pretest"; and quickly (changes part of speech or creating new word
meaning)
What is syntax? - Answers - sentence level structure of language that marks relationships between rules
and ideas
- Declarative
- Interrogative
- Imperative
- Negative: My brother didn't walk the dog
- Passive: the dog was fed by my mother
- Conjoined: My brother and sister take turns walking the dog
- Clausal Embedding: My sister walks the dog (that lives next door) - doesn't make sense on its own
What is semantics? - Answers - the meaning of the language consists of 2 types of info.: lexical and
conceptual
