Exam 5: Language Development: Birth Through the Pre-School Years

Parents usually speak more slowly and use shorter sentences with their very young children.

For most children, the first words that emerge are nouns and verbs.

"Mean length of utterance" is defined as:

Which of the following are most newborn (0-2 months) babies able to do?

Place the following language developments in the order in which they occur:

One a trip to a farm, an 18 month old child saw a cow and said, "doggie." This is an example of:

Most babies begin to use true words at about 5 months of age.

Babies begin to use spoken language shortly after birth.

The stage of communication development in which parents read intentionality into their child's utterances is called the ________________ stage.

Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) is calculated by dividing the total number of _______________ by the number of _________________.

The major language development during Brown's Stage II is the emergence of _________________.

Children at the "two word" stage of language development:

Complex sentences are completely developed in most children by the end of Stage IV (40 months).

Describe the typical first words used by young children in terms of their language characteristics (e.g. length, type of word, etc.).

What is the relationship between early language development and emergent literacy? How do early literacy experiences affect language development?

Recent research has found that both infants and parents contribute to the communicative interactions between them. Describe what each contributes to these interactions.

According to Brown, the major language development at Stage II is:

For most children, true first words emerge sometime during the period from _________ to ______ months.

If a child were to be left alone so that she was not exposed to any language input, it is likely that the child:

Research has found that infants are unable to participate in communicative exchanges with their parents.