Exam 11: Later Language Acquisition

Most of the research on bilingual language acquisition comes from:

Children's first negative sentences are of the form:

Cross-linguistic differences generally reflect:

To explain why children sometimes say "ringed" instead of "rang," Marcus (1986) proposed that children:

Some studies of bilingual language acquisition have found that compared to monolingual children, bilingual children:

Ricciardelli's (1992) examination of the relationship between bilingualism and problem solving showed that bilingualism:

Which is the following is NOT true of children's use of cohesion?

Providing speech and behavior appropriate for a given classroom situation is an aspect of:

Metalinguistic skills are thought to develop _________ the primary skills of speaking and listening

Utterances that occur without a prior adult utterance, or without a pause after a previous adult utterance are called:

Studies of teacher-student communication in the classroom have found that:

Schooled language is more _____ than unschooled language.

The notion that a child's first language (L1) influences acquisition of a second language (L2) is referred to as language ___________:

Which of the following phonological awareness tasks do kindergarten children find easiest?

When children produce utterances such as Where I should put it? they have evidently failed to master the _____ transformational rule

Bialystok et al (2004) showed that _________ bilinguals performed ________ than monolinguals on the Simon task.

Bloom, Rocissano, and Hood (1976) examined utterances in 19- to 38-month-old children and found the largest developmental increase in _____ speech.

When children acquire two languages at the same time, their bilingualism is referred to as:

A paradigm that involves formulating a message to refer to an object or a picture is called a:

Good readers in the elementary grades tend to be superior to poor readers in recognizing words: