Exam 9: A: Language and Communication

Children with a referential style use language as a social tool.

School-age children can detect sarcasm from the speaker's tone of voice but not from the context of the sarcastic comment.

A specific area of the brain, usually the left hemisphere, plays a critical role in processing language.

Naming objects that are the focus of a child's attention can help the child learn new words.

When an unfamiliar word is heard, children will assume that the word refers to an object that is present that does not have a name.

Children are more likely to learn a word name when adults are not looking at an object when they name it.

Infants as young as one month can discriminate different sounds.

Preschool children ignore sentence cues when learning the meanings of words.

"Two mans" is an example of overregularization.

Most toddlers understand that one's reply to comments should be related to the comment.

Calling all four-legged animals doggie is an example of underextension.

Individuals master the grammar of a foreign language at the level of a native speaker only if they are exposed to the language prior to adolescence.

Early on, use of gestures is completely independent of use of words.

Chimpanzees learn grammar as easily as young children.

Young infants cannot discriminate sounds that they have never heard before.

The production of two-word speech does not follow any rules.

At about 18 months of age, many children experience a naming explosion.

Cooing involves combining vowel and consonant sounds.

Children cannot understand complex metaphors until they can reason abstractly.

The single most important factor in growth of vocabulary is heredity.