Quiz
Chdv 4920 midterm
Create a free account to finish this quiz
Save your progress and see your final score.
Already have an account? Sign in
Questions in this quiz (24)
1The study of language is divided into the following components:
- APhonology, lexicon, syntax and morphology, and communicative competence.
- BNativism, behaviorism, constructivism, and connectionism.
- CDiary studies, normative studies, longitudinal studies and cross-linguistic studies.
2One of the major disagreements in the field of language development focuses on whether:
- AThe mechanisms that underlie language acquisition are specific to humans or to other animal species as well.
- BLanguage is innate or learned in the environment.
- CLanguage and development are/are not shaped by the social context.
3Videotape or audiotape records of speech samples are used to:
- AExamine a child's social behavior in natural settings such as meal time or toy play.
- BExamine how many errors children produce in their speech.
- CCollect a representative database of the child's language to examine specific questions about language acquisition.
4What is syntax?
- AA system that tells speakers how to order words in sentences.
- BSounds and sounds patterns.
- CWords and meanings.
5The lexicon is:
- AThe transmittal of info to others in socially appropriate ways.
- BThe sound system of of language.
- CThe way words are combined into sentences.
6What is phonology?
- AWords and meanings.
- BSounds and sound patterns.
- CGrammar.
7A child learns to add -ing and -ed to words grammatically, producing sentence like "Yesterday I baked" and "Today, i am walking to school." He has learned aspects of:
- ASyntax
- BPhonology
- CMorphology
8Communicative competence refers to the ability to:
- AUse the appropriate sounds and words of a language and produce grammatical sentences.
- BUse language appropriately to communicate in different contexts.
- CSpeak more than one language.
9Aphasia is:
- AA total loss of the ability to speak.
- BEvidence of the language learning capacity.
- CAn impairment of language due to brain injury.
10Dichotic listening experiments examined adults and found that there is:
- AA right-ear advantage for speech stimuli
- BA right-ear advantage for adult users of language (both for speech and non-speech sounds)
- CA left-ear advantage for adult users of language.
11Research on functions of the left hemisphere demonstrates that:
- AAnalytical processing is primarily a function of the left hemisphere.
- BLanguage processing is primarily a function of the left hemisphere.
- CBoth (b) and (c) are correct.
12Neural plasticity is:
- AThe ability of the brain to become more flexible with age.
- BAlso called lateralization
- CThe ability of parts of their brain to make over functions that they would normally not serve.
13People with Broca's aphasia tend to:
- AProduce speech that does not make sense.
- BProduce speech that is not fluent and not grammatical.
- CProduce speech that is extremely expressive and displays many adjectives.
14According to the critical period hypothesis:
- AChildren can acquire language in a typical way even if they ar not exposed to it until adolescence.
- BChildren can acquire language in a typical way only if they hear it enough.
- CChildren can acquire language in a typical way only if they are exposed to it before adolescence.
15Evidence from second language acquisition studies suggests that:
- AIt is not the amount of time spent in a new country but the age of arrival to that country that determines how well a person learns a second language.
- BIt is not the age of the arrival to a new country but the amount of time spent in that country that determines how well a person learns a second language.
- CAnyone can learn a second language well at any age.
16Genie was:
- AA child who was neglected and not cared by until she was found at the age of 13.
- BA child who did not learn how to speak because she was not spoken to during her first 13 years.
- CA child who never acquired language fully because she was not exposed to it until puberty.
- DAll of the above.
17The high amplitude sucking technique:
- AA device that measures infants sucking rate.
- BUsed to examine what sounds infants can hear in the early months of life.
- CA type of experiment used in the field of infant speech perception.
- DAll of the answers are true.
18At birth:
- ABabies can hear all the sounds of the word's languages.
- BInfants can only distinguish easy-to-hear sounds as they are still developing their hearing.
- CInfants can only hear only the sounds of the language they have been hearing while in the womb.
19Babies start to coo:
- AAt birth
- BAround 6 weeks
- CAt 6 months
- DAt 12 months
20Babies start to babble:
- AAt birth
- BAround 6 weeks
- CAt 6 months
- DAt 12 months
21Children produce phonological processes:
- AFrom birth.
- BStarting from 6 months of age.
- CBetween 18 months and 4 years.
22As put by Patricia Kuhl, children learn language by statistical learning. This means that:
- AChildren imitate what they hear, even sounds and patterns only heard once.
- BChildren's brain keeps track of how often certain sounds/patterns occur in the input.
- CChildren learn the sounds and patterns that are frequent in their language but not those that rarely occur.
- DBoth (b) and (c) are true.
23Patricia Khul argues that babies stop being "universal listeners" around 7.5 months. This means that by this age:
- ABabies become better at hearing the sounds of their language but worse at discriminating sounds in other languages.
- BBabies become better at perceiving the sounds of all languages.
- CInfants listens attentively to all sounds, language and non-language related.
24Besides age, what are other important factors in language learning according to Patricia Kuhl?
- AMotherese- this helps babies hear clean, slowed-down examples of sounds and words.
- BSocial interaction- the baby's brain engages in statistical learning only if the baby is involved in meaningful interaction with others.
- CMedia- hearing of watching videos of positive child-adult interaction.
- DBoth (a) and (b) are correct.
Information
- Description
- Quiz on Chdv 4920 midterm, created by Deez Nutts on 12/03/2018.
- Author
- Deez Nutts
- Language
- English
- Views
- 4
- Rating
- No ratings yet Rate this quiz