Exam 11: Development of Language and Communication Skills

Suppose you make a preposterous request to a child,such as saying "Bring me the house." Around what age are children first likely to question the feasibility of the request?

When young children overregularize and produce forms such as tooths,satted,or goed,as well as correct forms (e.g.,walked,played,and cars),what are they demonstrating?

Explain what holophrases are,and how children use them in early communication.

Which of the following observations has been interpreted as providing compelling support for a nativist perspective of language development?

Outline the basics of the learning theory explanation of language development.Summarize its strengths and weaknesses.

What was the serious flaw in early studies that supported claims that bilingualism stunts cognitive development?

Describe the different responses parents can elicit from preverbal infants by using rising or falling intonations.

Based on current research findings,which of the following best accounts for the tendency of 2-year-olds to use a telegraphic style of speech?

On average,how many new words do infants add to their vocabulary between the ages of 18 and 24 months?

Based on Janet Werker's research,how is vocabulary size related to an infant's ability to discriminate similar-sounding words?

Outline the typical developmental course of prelinguistic vocalizations during the first year.

What type of language knowledge is a child demonstrating when he or she engages in word play and says such things as stop,bop,rop,dop,clop,mop but never says sgap,tpir,or sbum?

Moira understands that if she wants to talk about something in the past,she adds ed to the verb.The acquisition of which type of language knowledge accounts for Moira's understanding?

Which of the following would be most likely to appear in a 2-year-old's spontaneous conversation?

Infant babbling often sounds as if the child has learned the "tune" before the words.What aspect of language is being referred to by the word "tune"?

Which of the following best summarizes the research evidence regarding the development of proficiency with semantic integrations?

Describe what is meant by the nativists' idea of a language acquisition device (LAD)and give evidence for and against this idea.

Sherry has recently been appointed as a kindergarten teacher in a school in Nunavut.She discovers that most of the children do not speak English.Based on current research regarding second-language acquisition,what should Sherry do to maximize self-esteem and language acquisition among her pupils?

Which of the following best summarizes Noam Chomsky's view of language acquisition?

Which type of sentences are parents most likely to respond to and reinforce when a child is first learning to speak?