Question 1

What is the definition of the following terms?
-Morphemes

Accepted Answer

Minimal meaningful units in speech, such as words, parts of words, or word endings.

Question 2

What is the definition of the following terms?
-Autism

Accepted Answer

A syndrome characterized by disordered social interactions and problems with language and communication.

Question 3

What is the definition of the following terms?
-Emergentist Coalition Model (ECM)

Accepted Answer

A theory about early word learning that describes children shifting at approximately 12 months of age from a reliance on attentional cues such as perceptual saliency and temporal continuity to a greater dependency on social and linguistic cues such as eye gaze, social context, and grammar.

Question 4

What is the definition of the following terms?
-Constrained statistical learning

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The ability to extra

Question 5

What is the definition of the following terms?
-Whole object assumption

Accepted Answer

A constraint on learning that

Question 6

The system of language that corresponds to the meaning of words is

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A)  phonology 
B)  semantics 
C)  grammar 
D)  pragmatics 
A)  phonology 
B)  semantics 
C)  grammar 
D)  pragmatics

Question 7

What is the definition of the following terms?
-Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

Accepted Answer

A cluster of five related synd

Question 8

What is the definition of the following terms?
-Babbling

Accepted Answer

Patterned but meanin

Question 9

Two-year-old Jeremy is participating in a study in which the researcher said that she was looking for a "crug". She then pulled an object out of a paper bag, looked happy, and said, "Ah!" Later, when a different researcher asked Jeremy the name of the object, he told her that it was a "crug." This is an example of young children's ability to use

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A)  grammatical cues 
B)  the whole-object assumption 
C)  referential cues 
D)  imitation 
A)  grammatical cues 
B)  the whole-object assumption 
C)  referential cues 
D)  imitation

Question 10

Researchers have documented the existence of a widely used form of language that is characterized by emotional, short, repetitive, high-pitched, simplified utterances. This form of language is referred to as

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A)  adult-directed speech 
B)  egocentric speech 
C)  infant-directed speech 
D)  nonstandard speech 
A)  adult-directed speech 
B)  egocentric speech 
C)  infant-directed speech 
D)  nonstandard speech

Question 11

What is the definition of the following terms?
-Grammar

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Systems of

Question 12

Efforts to generalize about children's first spoken words have shown that

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A)  there is little variation across different children 
B)  regardless of the language, nouns appear before verbs 
C)  across cultures, parents differ in the words and phrases that they encourage their children to learn first 
D)  bilingual children usually acquire nouns in one language and verbs in their second language 
A)  there is little variation across different children 
B)  regardless of the language, nouns appear before verbs 
C)  across cultures, parents differ in the words and phrases that they encourage their children to learn first 
D)  bilingual children usually acquire nouns in one language and verbs in their second language

Question 13

Charlotte's parents want to facilitate their 12-month-old daughter's ability to communicate with them. They can do this, at least in the short term, by

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A)  using adult-directed speech whenever they speak to her 
B)  discouraging her from using gestural communication, since it may interfere with the development of spoken language 
C)  speaking to her less often 
D)  accompanying their spoken words with symbolic gestures that they use consistently 
A)  using adult-directed speech whenever they speak to her 
B)  discouraging her from using gestural communication, since it may interfere with the development of spoken language 
C)  speaking to her less often 
D)  accompanying their spoken words with symbolic gestures that they use consistently

Question 14

What is the definition of the following terms?
-Syllables

Accepted Answer

Combinations of cons

Question 15

The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI)

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A)  assesses expressive language but not receptive abilities 
B)  combines parent reports and checklists with a representative language sample 
C)  cannot be used with children who are younger than 24 months old 
D)  has little power for predicting which children will have language delays and which will develop within a normal range 
A)  assesses expressive language but not receptive abilities 
B)  combines parent reports and checklists with a representative language sample 
C)  cannot be used with children who are younger than 24 months old 
D)  has little power for predicting which children will have language delays and which will develop within a normal range

Question 16

What is the definition of the following terms?
-Semantics

Accepted Answer

Meanings o

Question 17

All of the following points support nativist views about language acquisition except

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A)  children learn the language that is spoken around them 
B)  rate of acquisition varies across children, but there is a similar order for the acquisition of grammar 
C)  children are able to apply rules of grammar to words they have never heard before 
D)  deaf children reared without exposure to formal sign language invent their own rule-governed gestural systems of communication 
A)  children learn the language that is spoken around them 
B)  rate of acquisition varies across children, but there is a similar order for the acquisition of grammar 
C)  children are able to apply rules of grammar to words they have never heard before 
D)  deaf children reared without exposure to formal sign language invent their own rule-governed gestural systems of communication

Question 18

What is the definition of the following terms?
-Underextension

Accepted Answer

An error in which children app

Question 19

Studies of overregularization - the phenomenon in which children say "mouses" or falled" instead of "mice" or "fell" -- indicate that

Accepted Answer

A)  children make this grammatical error in approximately 25 percent of utterances in which irregular verb forms would be correct 
B)  overregularization increases from the age of two years to school age 
C)  the more often parents correctly use an irregular form, the less often children overregularize it 
D)  young children rely on memory rather than grammatical rules to produce both regular and irregular verb forms 
A)  children make this grammatical error in approximately 25 percent of utterances in which irregular verb forms would be correct 
B)  overregularization increases from the age of two years to school age 
C)  the more often parents correctly use an irregular form, the less often children overregularize it 
D)  young children rely on memory rather than grammatical rules to produce both regular and irregular verb forms

Question 20

What is the definition of the following terms?
-Mutual exclusivity assumption

Accepted Answer

A constraint on learning that

What is the definition of the following terms? -Morphemes

What is the definition of the following terms? -Autism

What is the definition of the following terms? -Emergentist Coalition Model (ECM)

What is the definition of the following terms? -Constrained statistical learning

What is the definition of the following terms? -Whole object assumption

The system of language that corresponds to the meaning of words is

What is the definition of the following terms? -Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

What is the definition of the following terms? -Babbling

Researchers have documented the existence of a widely used form of language that is characterized by emotional, short, repetitive, high-pitched, simplified utterances. This form of language is referred to as

What is the definition of the following terms? -Grammar

Efforts to generalize about children's first spoken words have shown that

Charlotte's parents want to facilitate their 12-month-old daughter's ability to communicate with them. They can do this, at least in the short term, by

What is the definition of the following terms? -Syllables

The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI)

What is the definition of the following terms? -Semantics

All of the following points support nativist views about language acquisition except

What is the definition of the following terms? -Underextension

Studies of overregularization - the phenomenon in which children say "mouses" or falled" instead of "mice" or "fell" -- indicate that

What is the definition of the following terms? -Mutual exclusivity assumption

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What is the definition of the following terms? -Morphemes

What is the definition of the following terms? -Autism

What is the definition of the following terms? -Emergentist Coalition Model (ECM)

What is the definition of the following terms? -Constrained statistical learning

What is the definition of the following terms? -Whole object assumption

The system of language that corresponds to the meaning of words is

What is the definition of the following terms? -Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

What is the definition of the following terms? -Babbling

Researchers have documented the existence of a widely used form of language that is characterized by emotional, short, repetitive, high-pitched, simplified utterances. This form of language is referred to as

What is the definition of the following terms? -Grammar

Efforts to generalize about children's first spoken words have shown that

Charlotte's parents want to facilitate their 12-month-old daughter's ability to communicate with them. They can do this, at least in the short term, by

What is the definition of the following terms? -Syllables

The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI)

What is the definition of the following terms? -Semantics

All of the following points support nativist views about language acquisition except

What is the definition of the following terms? -Underextension

Studies of overregularization - the phenomenon in which children say "mouses" or falled" instead of "mice" or "fell" -- indicate that

What is the definition of the following terms? -Mutual exclusivity assumption

Beliefs About Babies: Historical Perspectives on Children and Childhood

Research Methods

Genetics, Conception, and Prenatal Development

Birth and the Newborn

Physical Growth, Health, and Nutrition

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Relationships and Social Development

Temperament, Emotions, and the Self

Building Better Babies: Childcare and Early Intervention

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