Exam 6: The Development of Syntax and Morphology: Learning the Structure of Language

The characteristic that humans have the capacity to produce and understand an infinite number of novel utterances is known as:

Studies of language as a system of rules:

In arguing against the behaviorist view of language development, Chomsky (1957):

Describe the features of adult's knowledge of language structure and discuss application the perspectives on descriptive versus prescriptive rules.

A linguist delineates rule patterns for formulating sentences. These rules are called:

Researchers agree that 2-year old children have an understanding of

Telegraphic speech:

Two-word utterances:

Mean length of utterance (MLU) is a useful tool to:

The study of early childhood language centers on the following three categories of linguistic rules. They are:

Most children acquire multiword utterances by:

The connectionist theory suggests that language development is the outcome of:

The connectionist model of explaining language development processes is based on:

Children's first sentences tend to be incomplete and are missing which of the following?

The most common form of passives used by children is:

Children's use of a variety of response strategies to speech:

Select one theory of language development that you feel describes how children develop language. Describe that theory and discuss why you feel it describes how language is acquired.

Children's early multiwords utterances:

Principles and parameters theory suggests:

Chomsky's view that mothers model language with errors and thus children have errorful language is: