Exam 12: Processes of Language Acquisition

Children sometimes use sentences such as See window and Shake hands early in language development. According to the parameter setting view, they do so because:

Slobin's list of operating principles explains:

Children who have mastered object permanence begin to use words that refer to:

According to Lane (1976), Victor's delay in language acquisition was due to:

Experimental studies of the effect of adult speech input on language acquisition suggest that children benefit from:

Genie's language acquisition was particularly weak in the area of:

Johnson and Newport (1989) studied native Korean and Chinese speakers who had immigrated to the United States between 3 and 39 years of age. The subjects judged whether strings of English words were sentences or not. The study showed that those who arrived in the US between _____ years old had the highest grammatical scores.

An auxiliary language that arises when speakers of several mutually unintelligible languages are in close contact defines a:

Children's overregularizations of grammatical morphemes corresponds to which operating principle?

Children reputed to have been raised in the wild or by animals are known as:

The existence of patients with intact syntactic skills who have deficits in semantic knowledge refutes the notion that:

Children with Williams syndrome display:

Research on the relationship between object permanence and the acquisition of the words more and allgone was based on the hypothesis that object permanence should occur _____ the acquisition of these words.

The strong form of the motherese hypothesis states that:

A _________ occurs when children adopt a _______as their native language.

The mechanism within of universal grammar that allows children to learn the specific subsystems of language is:

If one language has strict word order and a second language has flexible word order, the first can be considered to be a _________ of the second.

In general, speech directed at young children is _____ than adult-directed speech.

Which of the following does NOT support the notion of an innate mechanism for language?

Hakuta and Bialystok (2001) argued against the concept of a critical period for second-language (L2) acquisition. They argued that: