Exam 11: Development of Language and Communication Skills

Margrete holds up her arms to indicate that she wants her dad to pick her up,and her dad lifts her onto his shoulders.Margrete's behaviour is an example of which of the following processes?

Why are overextensions more common in toddlers' production of words than in their comprehension?

Quentin is a 2-year-old living in Toronto.He is an only child.Based on research conducted by Nelson,what language style is Quentin likely to have?

Which of the following best summarizes the research evidence regarding the acquisition of a first language?

Which of the following does not involve grammatical overregularization?

Learning theorists believe that language acquisition is dependent on shaping and reinforcement.What does the research evidence suggest about role of reinforcement in language acquisition?

What does it mean to say that children use holophrases?

List three research findings that support the nativist view of language development.

Suppose that a researcher placed several objects in front of preverbal infants aged 11 to 13 months,and asked their mothers to tell the infant to look at different objects.Which of the following best summarizes how the infants will perform?

Which of the following best summarizes the research findings regarding communication effectiveness in younger children?

According to Nelson,which of the following would most likely be among an infant's first words?

What is the term for the assumption that words label categories of similar objects that share common perceptual features?

Three-year-old Reggie says,"The mouses runned their foots into the hole." What language error is he making with this statement?

Five-year-old Samantha often modifies the complexity of her speech when talking with her classmate Georges because he is just learning English.The development of which of the following accounts for the shift in her speech pattern when speaking to Georges?

What is the term for the assumption that each object has one label,and that different words refer to separate,nonoverlapping categories?

Which of the following is a strong predictor of the child's reading skill in grade school?

What is suggested by the fact that coos sound the same,regardless of whether or not the infant can hear?

Distinguish between receptive language and productive language.

Babbling refers to which type of vocalization?

Outline the empiricist (learning)perspective of language development and evaluate evidence that relates to the role of learning in the development of semantics (vocabulary)and syntax (grammar).