Exam 7: Language development

Which of the following is believed to not be an important factor in one's reading comprehension?

Jokes and puns begin to be appreciated during primary school years as they gain a better understanding of the potential ambiguities of words and sentences.

Child-directed speech often entails the use of exaggerated facial expressions with normal emotional tone.

Infants first use gestures as a form of communication at what age?

The perceptual and information-processing limitations of young children help them to learn languages.

A speech synthesiser is used to gradually change one speech sound into a related one.It is often used to study what ability?

Cooing emerges at approximately four months of age,and reduplicated babbling is typically evident at seven months of age.

At the logographic stage of reading,children begin to learn the rules that govern how letters and letter combinations can be translated into the more familiar units of spoken language.

Most children do not begin to combine words into larger units until approximately 18 months to 2 years of age.

Young children may take conversational turns,but often focus on different themes and topics.

It is well agreed that,in language development,production precedes comprehension.

Many school-aged children do not have well-developed phonemic awareness skills.Discuss how 'phonics' methods attempt to improve the reading skills of students.Does research evidence support their efficacy?

When a child says 'I runned home' they demonstrate:

Which of the following is an example of a constraint on early word learning?

Phonology is:

The 'Whorfian hypothesis' suggests that you cannot think about an object,event or relation unless you have a _______ for it.

Evidence suggests that parents speak to their infants in a way that is likely to be very helpful for early language acquisition.

For most right-handed people,the majority of language is represented in the right hemisphere of the cerebral cortex.

One of the first challenges for children learning their native language is to distinguish,recognise and then reproduce the phonemes.

Around what age are infants capable of identifying and remembering new spoken words?