Exam 6: Development of Language and Symbol Use

In the study by Brown cited in the text in which preschool children were shown hands kneading material in a container, young children tended to interpret "some sib" as the

Research conducted by Fernald on infants' comprehension of the meaning of the emotional tone of infant-directed speech indicated that

There are more than _____ languages worldwide that are based on gestures, including ASL.

Bilingual infants are less likely than are monolingual infants to

Dual representation refers to the notion that a symbolic artifact must be represented as both

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

The fact that language learning is achieved by typically developing infants across the globe indicates that language is

What can parents do to positively influence their preschoolers' ability to produce narratives?

According to Noam Chomsky, babies are born with

Syntactic bootstrapping refers to children's use of the _____ as a cue to figure out the meaning of a novel word.

Kayla is talking to her infant daughter. Based on what you know about IDS, you can expect Kayla to do all of these EXCEPT

Using the distributional properties of language is an example of what type of learning?

Language is

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

Children's syntactic development refers to their learning of the

Which bit of conversation is an example of a narrative?

In the English language, "walked" contains "walk" and "ed," which are both

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 behaviour is Seth's MOST likely response?

The notion that an infinite number of sentences and ideas can be expressed through a finite set of words is referred to as

_____ is NOT an example of a way in which adults help toddlers learn words.