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Chapter 9 - Development of Language and Communication Skills

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1[blank_start]__________[blank_end] is the sound system of a language and the rules for combining these sounds to produce meaningful units of speech
1. Amorphology
2. Bphonology
3. Cpragmatics
4. Dsemantics
5. Esyntax
2[blank_start]______[blank_end] is composed of the rules governing the formation of meaningful words from sounds
1. Amorphology
2. Bphonology
3. Cpragmatics
4. Dsemantics
5. Esyntax
3[blank_start]________[blank_end] is the expressed meaning of words and sentences
1. Amorphology
2. Bphonology
3. Cpragmatics
4. Dsemantics
5. Esyntax
4[blank_start]_________[blank_end] is the structure of a language; the rules specifying how words and grammatical markers are to be combined to produce meaningful sentences
1. Amorphology
2. Bphonology
3. Cpragmatics
4. Dsemantics
5. Esyntax
5[blank_start]______[blank_end] include principles that underlie the effective and approptiate use of language to social contexts
1. Amorphology
2. Bphonology
3. Cpragmatics
4. Dsemantics
5. Esyntax
6A young child's tendency to use relatively specific words to a broad set of objects, actions or events is called a(n) [blank_start]_________[blank_end]
1. Aoverextension
2. Bunderextension
7The notion that young children make inferences about the meaning of words by analyzing the way words are used insentences and inferring whether they refer to objects, actions, or attributes is called [blank_start]__________[blank_end].
1. Aobject scope constraint
2. Bmutual exclusivity constraint
3. Clexical contrast constraint
4. Dsyntactical bootstrapping
8The [blank_start]_______[blank_end] is the single-word utterance that represents an entire sentence's worth of meaning.
1. Acoo
2. Bholophrase
3. Cbabble
9Tamina is preoccupied with pointing at things and asking what they are. She is a toddler who experiences
1. Athe naming explosion
2. Bprelinguistic vocables
3. Can overactive language acquisition device
4. Dmetalinguistic awareness
10The fact that coos sound the same whether or not the young infant can hear suggests that coos
1. Aconvey self-generated meanings for adult listeners
2. Bdevelop with maturation of the brain and vocal organs
3. Care a relection of the parents' recasts and extensions
4. Darise from the infant's mutual exclusivity constraint

11The unfant uses imperatice gestures to get others to
1. Anotice the infant's ideas
2. Bexpand pidgin into vocables
3. Cfulfill the infant's requests
4. Dinitiate communication via telegraphic speech
12The first word of a first child usually vastly differs from those of their younger siblings. This illustrates the concept of
1. Athe sensitive-period hypothesis
2. Bthe birth order hypothesis
3. Cthe sex-difference hypothesis
4. Dthe critical period hypothesis
13During the last phase of question asking, the child is able to ask adultlike questions such as:
1. A"What is Mommy reading?"
2. B"Where Mommy?"
3. C"Mommy here?"
4. D"Where Mommy go?"
14Cross-cultural studies on passives show that children whose language has many passive constructions
1. Aget bored with passives, so actives are preferred
2. Buse many passives in their own uttered sentences
3. Chave family pets that show humanlike fluencies
4. Dbecome "cognitively chokes" on sentences' meanings
15Level of _________ is a strong predictor of the child's reading skill in grade school
1. Aholophrase pidginization
2. Boverextended underextension
3. Cinterest in a well-balanced diet
4. Dphonological awareness
16Conversing with siblings promotes effective communication because
1. Atelegraphic speech is highly accurate in its content
2. Bcreoles debelop more from children than from adults
3. Ckids in large groups shout at one another
4. Dnoticing siblings' conprehension errors makes the speaker aware of the need to express indeas clearly
17Overregularization refers to the young child's tendency to use relatively specific words to refer to a broader set of objects, actions, or events than adults do (such as using the word "car" to refer to all motor vehicles).
1. ATrue
2. BFalse
18Transformational grammar refers to rules of syntax that allow one to transform declarative statements into questions, negatives, imperatives, and other kinds of sentences.
1. ATrue
2. BFalse
19A psycholinguistic studies _______. She is interested in how children learn the meanings of bound morphemes, free morphemes, and sentences.
1. Aphonology
2. Bmorphology
3. Csemantics
4. Dsyntax
20Expansions and recasts are examples of
1. Apragmatics
2. Blinguistic universals
3. Cchild-directed speech
4. Da language acquisition device
21Nativists believe in all of the following except:
1. Achild-directed speech
2. Ba language acquisition device
3. Clinguistic universal
4. Da sensitive period
22A scientist who believes that children who are biologically prepared to acquire language, who have conversations with adults who use child-directed speech, with a nervous system that gradually matures and predisposes them to develop similar language skils at about the same age is known as a(n)
1. Alearning theorist
2. Bnativist
3. Cinteractionist
4. Dsensitive period theorist
23Infants begin cooing by age ___ month(s) and start to babble by age ___ months.
1. A1; 2-3
2. B2; 3-4
3. C2; 4-6
4. D4; 6-7
24Development during the __________ allows infants to discriminate speechlike sounds and become sensitive to a wider variety of phonemes than adults are.
1. Asensitive period
2. Bphonemic period
3. Cholophrase period
4. Dprelinguistic period
25Which of the following is not one of the processing constraints that help toddlers figure out word meanings?
1. Aobject shape constraint
2. Bmutual constraint
3. Clexical constraint
4. Dsyntactical bootstrapping
26During middle childhood and adolescence, children learn more about
1. Amorphological knowledge
2. Bgrammatical morphemes
3. Ctransformational grammar
4. Dreferential communication skills
27Rob has learned grammatical morphemes, such as -s for plurals and -ed for past tense. Occasionally he makes errors such as saying, "foots" and "broked." These errors are known as:
1. Aoverregularizations
2. Brecasts
3. Cexpansions
4. Dmorphological extensions
28Recent research on bilingual education has found that two-way bilingual education programs
1. Aimprove the chid's language skills in both languages
2. Bimprove language in the child's primary language but do not help the child acquire the secondary language
3. Cimprove the child's secondary language but do not help the child acquire his or her primary language
4. Ddo not help the chld learn either language very well

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