Exam 6: Development of Language and Symbol Use

Research examining the association between infants' ability to detect differences among speech sounds at the age of 6 months and their later language skills has demonstrated that 6-month-old infants

The fact that only humans acquire language in the normal course of development indicates that language is

The Eimas and colleagues study that examined infants' comprehension of speech sounds demonstrated that 1- and 4-month-old infants differentiated between

_____ is NOT a symbolic artifact.

The Eimas and colleagues study that examined infants' comprehension of speech sounds varying between /b/ and /p/ used which technique?

The perception of speech sounds as belonging to discrete categories is known as

Learning _____ is considered part of pragmatic development.

Which of these has been established by studying people's response to speech sounds?

Which utterance is the most MOST developmentally advanced?

Children's overregularization errors are an indicator that they

Researchers with a connectionist view of language development would be MOST interested in

A _____ is a symbol.

The ability to understand what another person says is called language

Which of these is the LEAST convincing piece of evidence for the sensitive-period hypothesis related to language development?

Imagine that a young child is presented with a novel word, "encyclopedia," when her grandmother says, "Oh, look at the encyclopedia." In front of the child are two objects, a bright pink-covered book-"book" is a word the child already knows-and a green onion, an object the child has never seen before. The child is MOST likely to make the assumption that the novel word refers to the

Which statement about toddlers and word order is TRUE?

Preschoolers Cal and Jacob are playing with toy trucks. Jacob says, "My mommy took me to watch the construction at the end of the street. Cal responds, "This dump truck is yellow and black. I have one like this at my house." Then Jacob says, "They were digging up the road with a backhoe. They are putting a big pipe under the road." Cal then says, "I also have a green cement truck. It can turn. I got it for my birthday." This conversation is an example of

_____ refers to the fact that certain sounds are more likely to appear together than are others in language.

Toddler Seth calls all his stuffed animals, including teddy bears, bunnies, dogs, and ducks, "bear." When shown pictures of a teddy bear and a toy stuffed rabbit and asked to point to the bear, which behavior is Seth's MOST likely response?

The words a child can say are referred to as the child's