Exam 11: Development of Language and Communication Skills

Larissa is babysitting her 3-month-old nephew.She is trying to interest him in one of his toys,but he keeps looking away from her.Based on the results from Fernald's research,how should Larissa speak to him to recapture his attention?

List three characteristics that are typical in child-directed speech (or motherese).

Contrast a referential style with an expressive style of early language use.

Which of the following best defines an object scope constraint?

Why do adults simplify the vocabulary,structure,and length of their utterances when speaking to children?

Which of the following has been found to be essential,and sufficient,if the acquisition of syntax is to proceed normally?

Sometimes children will correctly use irregular words such as feet or went for a time and then begin making errors such as foots or goed.What do these errors indicate?

What is cooing?

Yuko and Teresa are both 3-year-olds who have no older siblings.Yuko lives in Tokyo,Japan,and Teresa lives in Calgary,Alberta.Based on Nelson's research findings,what type of language style would you expect each girl to develop?

Jerome's 4-month-old daughter was upset and fussy,but after listening to her father talk to her for a few minutes she is now calm.Based on the results from Fernald's research,how did Jerome speak to her?

When Petrov told his 3-year-old sister that "I hit the bat that flew into the attic with my baseball bat," his sister was very confused and wondered how the long wooden stick that her brother often carried could possibly fly.When Petrov's sister is able to recognize that the word bat can have two different meanings,what aspect of language knowledge will she have acquired?

What would an interactionist theorist place the most emphasis on in guiding language development?

Describe what morphological knowledge is,and explain how morphological knowledge might allow children to figure out the meaning of novel words.

List and describe the five categories that typically characterize a toddler's first 50 words,and provide examples of words that would belong in each category.

Discuss the potential benefits for minority children (e.g.,Aboriginal children in Canada)enrolled in heritage language programs.

In addition to several other pieces of evidence,Lenneberg and others have cited commonalities in structure of Creolized languages as evidence for which theory of language acquisition?

Discuss how the four central developmental themes of the textbook relate to the issue of language and communication.

Suppose that a child heard the novel sentence "This is a biz one." According to the concept of syntactical bootstrapping,how will the child use the word biz in the future?

Outline the nativist perspective of language development.

Linguistic universals are a joint product of which processes?