Exam 8: The Development of Language

Which of the following babies is most likely to show a preference for the stress patterns of his or her native language?

The fact that parents are remarkably forgiving of all sorts of peculiar constructions and meaning in their children's speech is evidence against which theory of language development?

Based on his research on vocabulary development, Anglin argues that children at about age 8 or 9

Japanese children learn at an early age to use a word at the end of the sentence that tells something about the feeling or context of what is being said. This is called a(n)

According to Slobin, infants and children

Three-year-old Randy was trying to tell his mother something, and he used the word "sitted" to tell her that he was sitting to watch television. Randy's use of the word "sitted" is an example of what researchers call __________ of speech.

The sequence of development in the prelinguistic phase of language development is

Slobin proposes that babies are preprogrammed to pay attention to

Manuel is in a classroom in which all the children speak Spanish and the teacher speaks both English and Spanish. He is in a(n)

A group of children are watching a guinea pig run around on the floor. Which one of the following comments from the children illustrates overextension?

All of the following are characteristic of Brown's stage 1 grammar EXCEPT

When Marta is holding her infant daughter, she speaks to her using a soft sing-song type of speech. This is referred to as __________ by developmentalists.

Four-year-old Tobias has learned to use several sentence forms. Which of the following sentences reflects the last sentence form Tobias learned to use?

The type of vocalization used by infants between 6 and 12 months of age is

Billy lives in the United States, Anwar lives in Egypt. They are both beginning to learn prepositions describing locations. Both will learn which of the following prepositions last?

The type of speech in which children frequently omit everything in a sentence but the critical words is called ________ speech.

When Dora's mother mentions that the neighbors have a new "kitty." Dora says, "They can't have Kitty because Kitty lives with us." Dora is demonstrating

Edna's father points to a squirrel climbing up a tree with a nut in its mouth and says, "Look at the squirrel." Because of built-in constraints, Edna will know that her father is referring to

Researchers propose that a child may have a built-in assumption that words refer to whole objects and not to their parts or attributes, and this is referred to as __________ .

What is the relationship between the grammar explosion and vocabulary development?