Table 1: Cumulative Vocabulary Experiences
(University of Oregon - Big Ideas)Family Status | Words heard per hour | Words heard in a 100-hour week | Words heard in a 5,200 hour year | Words heard in 4 years |
---|---|---|---|---|
Welfare | 616 | 62,000 | 3 million | 13 million |
Working Class | 1,251 | 125,000 | 6 million | 26 million |
Professional | 2,153 | 215,000 | 11 million | 45 million |
Inflectional and Derivational Morphology:
As indicated in the three associated links in the sub-topic list, inflectional morphology is related to the changing of a word form to reflect grammatical features such as plural, past and present tenses. Derivational morphology is related to the formation of new words for old words with each word being its own word. As indicated in the first link, creation is made from create, but each word has its own meaning.
My
Breakfast Reading Program explicitly addresses inflectional morphology
for single syllable words as indicated in Figure 3.
My
Breakfast Reading Program explicitly addresses derivational morphology
for multisyllabic words by providing lists of words with prefixes and
suffixes in the syllabication tool in Figure 3.
In addition, the dictionary provides links to derivations as well as
illustrating and including inflections, as illustrated in Figure 5.
For example, the selected word is adapt. Note that in the
left column of the dictionary results, there are words in gray
representing inflections and bold representing derivations. For
adapt, the derivational morphemes are adaptable, adaptation, adaptor and
adaptive. The inflections for adapt are adapted, adapting and
adapts.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Similar Words: Another benefit of the online dictionary is that it provides synonyms, antonyms and similar words for each definition, if applicable, as illustrated in Figure 4 and Figure 5.
Figure 5:
Derivational and Inflectional Morphology