Exam 9: Development of Language and Communication Skills

Details of the LAD/LMC (language acquisition device/;anguage-making capacity) are unspecified and unknown; this tends to ____ the nativist position on language.

You are in an airport and hear three 11-month-old babies babbling, each from a different racial/ethnic background (Asian, Hispanic, and European). The babbling of each of these infants will

Children utter novel sentences that they have never heard. This originality in speech ____ the empiricist theory.

The rules for making words out of sounds is a language's

Preschoolers learn syntax rules that let them convert actual sentences into others, such as questions, imperatives, or negatives. These rules are called

Outline the typical developmental progression in children's use of questions in conversation.

Outline the empiricist (learning) perspective of language development, and evaluate evidence that relates to the role of learning in the development of semantics (vocabulary) and syntax (grammar).

Ebony's parents are very articulate, provide an environment that is rich in verbal stimuli, and spend a great deal of time talking with Ebony. Her parents state that when Ebony was only four months old, she started to speak in "sentences" that were three or four words long. Developmentalists would be most likely to

Among the various pragmatics of early speech, the earliest of these to appear is

The infant uses imperative gestures to get others to

Outline the interactionist perspective of language development.

Two-year-old Joey says "car" to describe his family's car, not any other. This is the word error called

What special language event happened in Nicaragua after the Sandinista regime took power in 1979?

Lenneberg's sensitive-period hypothesis states that language

Parents in individualistic cultures (e.g., the US) encourage the ____ style, while parents in collectivistic cultures (e.g., Japan) encourage the _____ style.

Outline the typical developmental course of prelinguistic vocalizations during the first year.

What was the serious flaw in early studies claiming that bilingualism stunts cognitive development?

Which of these is NOT a cognitive consequence of bilingualism?

At a church service, Bonzo jumps up and shouts, while hundreds of people scowl disapprovingly. Bonzo's language ____ is/are inappropriate here.

When a language uses "grammatical markers" that can be learned at young ages, then telegraphic speech