Exam 9: Language Development

Three of the following children are behaving in ways consistent with what information processing theorists have learned about children's early language capabilities. Which one is not behaving consistently with what researchers have learned about what children can and cannot do in the first few years of life?

Which strategy is most likely to be effective in promoting semantic development?

Early explanations of language development rested heavily on the roles of modeling and reinforcement in learning language. Which one of the following children's utterances casts doubt on the idea that modeling and reinforcement are sufficient to explain how children acquire language?

Thirteen-year-old Otto tells his friend, "Your jeans are way awesome, dude." Otto's statement reflects the fact that:

Latisha correctly understands the sentence "The girl who was pushed off the slide by the bully has a broken arm." Considering trends in language development, you can guess that Latisha is probably at least:

Which one of the following best illustrates babbling as developmental theorists typically use the term?

Sometimes the sociolinguistic behaviors that are expected at school are quite different from the behaviors that children have acquired at home. When this happens, children may initially:

Most children in the early elementary grades think that being a "good listener" is: