Exam 11: Development of Language and Communication Skills

According to the empiricist perspective,children's progress in language acquisition occurs in response to adults reinforcing their children's grammatically correct speech and failing to respond to grammatically incorrect or uninterpretable speech.Does current research evidence support this view?

What does evidence indicate about the timing of language turn-taking?

At what age do most typically developing infants begin to babble?

Which of the following pieces of evidence best supports the sensitive-period hypothesis for language development?

Explain what is meant by overextension and underextension and provide examples to illustrate each type of linguistic error.

Which of the following best describes the expansion of children's vocabularies between 6 and 10 years of age?

Which of the following best summarizes the research findings with respect to the efficacy of core language programs in contrast to those that employ immersion?

In one experiment,children were asked to "argue" with a puppet by transforming all the puppet's statements into negative forms.What were the results of this experiment?

Which Piagetian concept is illustrated by a toddler's overextension of words to describe new objects and events that he or she encounters?

According to recent research,what is required for an infant's acquisition of proficient language skills?