Here is a Language Sample for a 3 year; 4 month old boy.  Us…

Here is a Language Sample for a 3 year; 4 month old boy.  Use the language sample to answer all three of the following questions:   Calculate the child’s MLU.  (Show your work to earn partial credit.)   List ALL examples of Brown’s grammatical morphemes you observe in the child’s language.   Which of Brown’s stages do you think this child is in? Give a reason why you chose this stage.   Language Sample (c=child; SLP=clinician) SLP:  Here’s the playdough.  What are you making? C:      A pizza SLP:  A pizza?  How do you make a pizza? C:      You gotta make it flat C:      Like this SLP:  Is that the crust? C:      Yeah C:      Now do some cheese. SLP:  What about the sauce? C:      Oh yeah C:      I forgotted about sauce SLP:  You can’t forget the sauce. C:      Spread it on like this C:      Now we can do cheese SLP:  Now we can sprinkle the cheese on the pizza. C:      Here are little pieces SLP:  Oh, that’s good for the cheese. C:      Ok good SLP:  What do we need now? C:       Toppings SLP:   What kind of toppings should we make? C:       The circle ones SLP:    You mean pepperoni?  How do we make them? C:        Like this and smash it SLP:    Ok, so I roll it in a ball and then…What happened to the pizza? C:       I smashed it