Exam 6: Toddlers: Cognitive, Social and Personality Development in the Context of Language Acquisition

To use the word 'bird' for any moving animal is an example of:

Descriptive grammar is defined as:

Malin (1990) found that middle- class Anglo- Australian parents used ____________ reprimanding, directive ordering, punishment and verbal censure of their children's behaviour than Aboriginal parents.

____________ describes the social rules of conversation that enable meaning to be shared through speakers and listeners understanding one another.

Lawrence (1984) suggests that even toddlers are likely to respond initially with ____________ rather than blind defiance to conflicts that encourage verbal discussion and polite argument.

Speech to younger children that is briefer and grammatically simpler than that addressed to older children is often referred to as ____________ .

The rouge test is used to test whether a child has developed:

According to Lawrence (1984), requests prefaced by 'please' were more successful than forceful orders in obtaining compliance in toddlers with telegraphic language abilities.

According to Bruner (1983), parents can assist their toddlers' mastery of language when they use a strategy called ____________

Conventional sign languages such as ASL, Auslan and BSL have similar syntactic structures and are ____________ complex when compared to spoken languages.

Adults who suffer injury to areas of the left brain that are dominant for language may become unable to express or understand spoken words but are typically still able to comprehend and produce sign language.

According to the 2006 Australian census, of the 250 Aboriginal languages in use in the 1700s, only ____________ languages were still being spoken.

In a typically developing child of about 22 months, the sentence 'Mum helping you' is an example of:

Four- year- olds tend to use simpler speech when speaking to younger children than they would use with peers.

Children in the ____________ stage of syntax acquisition use single words to convey meanings complex enough to require full sentences in adult language.

The Language Acquisition Device is associated with which theorist?

Research has found that chimpanzees that have been taught language skills engage in overextension of word meanings.

Which of the following is not one of Tomasello's (2006) developmental steps in pragmatic language growth?

Which theorist described the mastery of the awareness that speech carries meaning to be the 'greatest discovery' in life?

Lempert (1984) found that her imitation training procedure was not effective in teaching children a new grammatical construction.