Deck 35: Language Development

Question 1

The language children produce themselves during early childhood is called __________.

A) receptive language
B) expressive language
C) pragmatic speech
D) telegraphic speech

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following techniques enables kindergarten-aged children to use the context of a sentence to discover a word's meaning?

A) Fastmapping
B) Syntactic mapping
C) Telegraphic speech
D) Syntactic bootstrapping

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The technique a child uses to determine a word's meaning from the grammatical structure of the entire sentence is called __________.

A) telegraphic speech
B) syntactic mapping
C) fastmapping
D) syntactic bootstrapping

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The phonology rule for language refers to __________.

A) how to put words together to form sentences
B) how to take part in a conversation
C) how to put sounds together to form words
D) how to interpret the meaning of words

Question 5

From the first year, children demonstrate ___________, meaning they receive and understand the words.

A) receptive language
B) expressive language
C) pragmatic speech
D) telegraphic speech

Question 6

TESOL is a technique that is being used to facilitate language development for __________.

A) blind and hearing-impaired children
B) the children of immigrant parents
C) homeless, abandoned, and abused children
D) children with learning disabilities

Question 7

The syntax rule for language refers to __________.

A) how to put words together to form sentences
B) how to take part in a conversation
C) how to put sounds together to form words
D) how to interpret the meaning of words

Question 8

A young child's use of the word "doggie" to mean any animal with a head, tail, body, and four legs is an example of language overextension.

Question 9

Telegraphic speech refers to the simple two-and three-word sentences that begin to appear in the rapidly expanding vocabularies of two-year-old children.

Question 10

Overregularities refers to a child's inability to use multi-syllable words.

Question 11

Hearing-impaired children do not possess the same potential for acquiring language as other children.