Exam 9: Language Development

Language is strongly influenced both by humans' general biological inheritance and by the uniqueness of the environments in which they grow up.

During the developmental stages of infants' babbling, Stage 3 voice play occurs between 8 and 20 weeks.

Which of the following is not identified as a lexical constraint on word learning?

Language refers to the systematic and conventional use of sounds, signs, or written symbols for the intention of communication or self-expression.

By 6-9 years of age, children can pronounce all the sounds of their language correctly about 75% of the time.

What are the five aspects of language which develop over time?

Briefly explain the concept of morphemes and provide examples.

There is some evidence to suggest that deaf children do not engage in true babbling, although they pass successfully through the earlier stages of speech production.

Explain the concept of speech registers which are the different styles of speech that are used in different situations.

Explain in detail and provide examples of the developmental stages of infant's babbling.

Which of the following are examples of telegraphic speech?

Explain the seven functions of language according to Halliday which motivate children to use language to attain a variety of goals.

Communication problems are very common among adults and sometimes require therapeutic assistance. Which of the following is not one avenue of therapeutic assistance?

Explain language development in young children.

The variety of sounds children can make increases from about 18 months to 8 or 9 years of age and include all of the following except:

By 6 years of age, most children have a vocabulary of over 10,000 words and about 100,000 words by adulthood.

What are the three important ways in which humans differ from other animals with regard to communication systems?

Pragmatics refers to knowledge about how language can be used and adjusted to fit different circumstances, such as using different tones as when speaking to a teacher versus a peer.

Language is a special form of communication, qualitatively different from the ways in which other animals send messages back and forth to one another. Language is also multilayered. Which of the following is not one of the layers of language?

Syntax is the knowledge of sentence structure, or grammatical rules-rules for how words are combined into sentences and how sentences are transformed into other sentences.