Question 1

Comprehension is also referred to as:

Accepted Answer

A)   productivity
B)   pragmatics
C)   receptive language
D)   expressive language C

Question 2

Researchers studying infants' categorical perception of speech sound conclude that this ability is likely:

Accepted Answer

A)   due to experience
B)   due to combined innate ability and experience
C)   too difficult to determine since this ability does not emerge until children are older
D)   an innate ability B

Question 3

A child who demonstrates an understanding of a word after hearing it only once demonstrates:

Accepted Answer

A)   fast mapping
B)   they have entered the period of vocabulary explosion
C)   Chomsky's Language Acquisition Device
D)   both A and C are correct A

Question 4

Learning to read is possible when a child has:

Accepted Answer

A)   developed cognitive skills such as inference
B)   an understanding of spoken language
C)   an understanding of grammatical rules
D)   both A and B are correct

Question 5

One factor that is thought to affect the development of reading comprehension is the capacity of an individual's knowledge.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Which of the following statements is true?

Accepted Answer

A)   research has provided poor support for the critical period hypothesis
B)   bilingual studies do not support the critical period hypothesis
C)   children must be exposed to a language early in life in order for them to master it
D)   research has identified specific features of children's cognitive system that make them good language learners

Question 7

By the time they start school,children have learnt the meanings of how many words on average?

Accepted Answer

A)   several thousand
B)   several dozen
C)   several hundred
D)   fewer than 100

Question 8

An example of an inflection is adding 'ed' onto the word 'jump' to form the past tense of 'jumped'.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Rules that govern word order are called grammar.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Which theorist proposed the 'language acquisition device' (LAD)?

Accepted Answer

A)   Noam Chomsky
B)   Lenneberg
C)   B. F. Skinner
D)   none of these answers is correct

Question 11

Parents who speak a language other than English in the home are often concerned about the influence of the second language on their development of English.What suggestions can be made from research evidence to parents in such a situation to promote positive language development in their children?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Parents who speak a language other than...

Question 12

Identify and discuss three areas of the brain that are important for language development.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Identify and discuss three areas of the...

Question 13

When children use the grammatical structure of a sentence to infer the meaning of a novel word,it is termed 'Semantic bootstrapping'.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Name and describe the three major stages of reading development as outlined by Frith (1985).

Accepted Answer

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Question 15

A child says to his parents,'The mans eated their breakfast.' According to the Environmental approaches,his parents may respond:

Accepted Answer

A)   by recasting the phrase (e.g. 'Yes, the men were really hungry so they ate all their breakfast.') 
B)   by using an expansion (e.g. 'That's right. The men ate their breakfast.') 
C)   by asking a clarification question
D)   All of these answers are correct

Question 16

It is possible to have complete understanding of a concept even if the relevant vocabulary for that concept is not present,as supported by research on numerical concepts.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

The 'Whorfian hypothesis' suggests that the way we think about the world determines the way we use language.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Which of the following statements about Chomsky is false?

Accepted Answer

A)   Chomsky's approach focuses heavily on productive speech
B)   Chomsky argued that language is better understood as an innate mechanism
C)   Chomsky believed that all languages are based on a set of abstract, unconscious rules
D)   Chomsky, a linguist, subscribed to the nativist approach

Question 19

'Mummy eat','Doggie woof' and 'All gone' are examples of:

Accepted Answer

A)   underextension
B)   elegraphic speech
C)   overextension
D)   holophrases

Question 20

Language processing is represented in the left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex for:

Accepted Answer

A)   everyone
B)   the majority of left-handed people only
C)   the majority of right- and left-handed people
D)   the majority of right-handed people only

Exam 7: Language development

Comprehension is also referred to as:

Researchers studying infants' categorical perception of speech sound conclude that this ability is likely:

A child who demonstrates an understanding of a word after hearing it only once demonstrates:

Learning to read is possible when a child has:

One factor that is thought to affect the development of reading comprehension is the capacity of an individual's knowledge.

Which of the following statements is true?

By the time they start school,children have learnt the meanings of how many words on average?

An example of an inflection is adding 'ed' onto the word 'jump' to form the past tense of 'jumped'.

Rules that govern word order are called grammar.

Which theorist proposed the 'language acquisition device' (LAD) ?

Parents who speak a language other than English in the home are often concerned about the influence of the second language on their development of English.What suggestions can be made from research evidence to parents in such a situation to promote positive language development in their children?

Identify and discuss three areas of the brain that are important for language development.

When children use the grammatical structure of a sentence to infer the meaning of a novel word,it is termed 'Semantic bootstrapping'.

Name and describe the three major stages of reading development as outlined by Frith (1985).

A child says to his parents,'The mans eated their breakfast.' According to the Environmental approaches,his parents may respond:

It is possible to have complete understanding of a concept even if the relevant vocabulary for that concept is not present,as supported by research on numerical concepts.

The 'Whorfian hypothesis' suggests that the way we think about the world determines the way we use language.

Which of the following statements about Chomsky is false?

'Mummy eat','Doggie woof' and 'All gone' are examples of:

Language processing is represented in the left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex for: