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Language Sample
Bound Morpheme Segmenting
Punctuation
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Each utterance must start on a new line
with Speaker identifier as the first character
All utterance must close with punctuation
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C mine car .
Nothing (including gloss) allowed after
punctuation
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C mine car [holds up car].
Punctuation
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DO NOT use any punctuation marks within
the utterance.
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C My teacher Dr. Valdez.
Use one of six punctuation marks
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. or ! = statement
? = question
~ rising intonation prompt
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E and ~
Punctuation
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One of six (cont’d)
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> = Abandoned utterance – speaker stops in
mid utterance
C I go to >
C [mother walks in the room] Oh !
C Mommy go!
Punctuation
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One of six (cont’d)
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^ = Interrupted utterance – speaker is
interrupted in mid utterance
E Here is a picture ^
C [child grabs book] mine book!
Bound Morpheme Conventions
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Plural Noun
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Cats
Babies
dresses
Identify root word (cat, baby, dress)
Single slash followed by s
Example
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Cat/s
Baby/s
Dress/s
Bound Morpheme Conventions
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DO NOT mark irregular plural
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Geese
Two deer
DO NOT mark those words that do not
have singular forms
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Tore his pants
Lost in the woods
Bound Morpheme Conventions
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Possessive Noun
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Dad’s
Mary’s
Identify root word (Dad, Mary)
Single slash followed by z
Examples
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Dad/z
Mary/z
Bound Morpheme Conventions
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DO NOT mark possessive pronouns
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Ours
Yours
Thiers
Bound Morpheme Conventions
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Plural Possessive
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Teachers’ babies’
Identify root word (teacher, baby)
Mark plural then possessive inflection
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Teacher/s/z
Baby/s/z
Bound Morpheme Conventions
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Regular past tense
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Loved
Died
Cried
Identify the root word (love, die, cry)
Single slash followed by ed
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Love/ed
Die/ed
Cry/ed
Bound Morpheme Conventions
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DO NOT mark irregular past tense
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Went
Had
Made
Bound Morpheme Conventions
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Third person singular
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Goes
Tells
Identify the root word (go, tell)
Single slash followed by 3s
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Go/3s
Tell/3s
Bound Morpheme Conventions
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DO NOT mark irregular verbs
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Does
Has
Bound Morpheme Conventions
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Present progressive
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Going
Running
Saying
Identify the root word (go, run, say)
Single slash followed by ing
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Go/ing
Run/ing
Say/ing
Bound Morpheme Conventions
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DO NOT mark
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Participles “flying bird”
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Gerunds
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Concatenatives “gonna, hafta, wanna”
“I like dancing”
Bound Morpheme Conventions
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Negative contraction
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Can’t
Doesn’t
Didn’t
Identify the root word (can, does, did)
Slash followed by n’t or ‘t depending on
root word
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Can/’t
Does/n’t
Did/n’t
Bound Morpheme Conventions
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Contractible verb forms
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I’ll
I’m
I’d We’re We’ve He’s
Identify the root word (I, we, he)
Slash followed by ‘ll, ‘m, ‘d, ‘re, ‘s, ‘ve
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I/’ll
We/’re
He/’s
I/’m
We/’ve
I/’d
Bound Morpheme Conventions
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DO NOT mark contracted forms where the
vowel changes phoneme when contracted
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Will won’t
Do don’t
Questions?