Exam 5: Lexical Development: Learning Words

It appears that children attach labels to whole objects rather than their parts, e.g. when an adult says "cat" the child assumes that the word "cat" refers to the whole cat rather than the cat's tail or ears, etc. This principle is called:

Katharine Nelson's (1973) study of children's first words to 50 words illustrated that

A child looks out the window of the car in the countryside and calls all four-legged animals "cow." This is an example of:

Describe how concepts are related to word learning in early language development.

Research on early word comprehension:

The taxonomic assumption is a principle in the study of the word learning process that:

Whether lexicalization is a language-specific process has been the subject of studies on:

____________________ are the largest category of words in children's first 50 words.

A child is standing by the door saying, "uh, uh, uh" because she wants to go outside where her sister is playing. In this example, "uh, uh, uh" would:

Research on the occurrence of word spurts indicates that:

Review the text in this chapter and identify support for the view that children's lexical development is guided by properties of speech they hear. Identify the researchers and provide citations for your discussion.

Compare and contrast research on mapping problems. Describe why or why not the positions are valid.

Children may have context-bound and referential words at the same time because:

Explain how lexical principles, pragmatic principles and the general learning process influence early language development.

Some researchers use features to distinguish how children use language, including:

Describe two hypotheses about the underlying factors to the word spurt and compare them for adequacy of explanation.

Describe the research on how children acquire their first words. Include a discussion of evidence on referential word use.

Children infer speakers' intentions from:

If all of a child's early words are context-bound, then this suggests:

Describe the content of children's first 50 words and discuss the relationship between the children's vocabulary development and cognition.