Exam 11: Development of Language and Communication Skills

Yuko and Eva are both 3-year-olds who have no older siblings.Yuko lives in Tokyo, Japan, and Eva lives in Calgary, Canada.Based on Nelson's research findings, what type of language style would you expect each girl to develop?

Which of the following best summarizes Noam Chomsky's view of language acquisition?

Which of the following best characterizes the ability that is referred to as metalinguistic awareness?

You are listening as two young children, Yolanda and Bruno, talk to their fathers at the playground.Yolanda points to almost everything she sees and asks her father, "What that?" Bruno can't seem to stop asking his father "Why?" Based on the research into the development of question asking in young children, what might you reasonably conclude about the children's ages?

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 one by one.Which of the following best summarizes how the infants will perform?

Outline two of the key criticisms that have been raised with respect to the nativist approach to language development.

Which of the following observations supports the view that prelinguistic vocalizations are heavily influenced by maturation of the brain and the muscles controlling verbal articulation?

Bilingual children often score as high, or higher, than their monolingual peers on which of the following types of tasks?

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

Jennessa is a toddler and embarrasses her parents by referring to any man with dark hair as daddy.What is the term for Jennessa's semantic error?