Born to Talk: An Introduction to Speech and Language Development 7th Edition

Chapter 1 A Connection of Brains Multiple Choice Questions 1. In Hocketts 1960 essay, he wrote about the 13 ___________________________ of language, which have been used to compare animal and human communication. a. Channels b. Transmissions c. Design features d. Recursions e. Speech chains 2. Which

Chapter 10 The Anatomical and Physiological Bases of Speech, Language, and Hearing Multiple Choice Questions 1. Although resonation is important for shaping all speech sounds, it is particularly important for __________________________________________. a. Fricatives b. Affricates c. Nasals d. Vowels e. C and D 2. Collectively, the

Chapter 2 Language Acquisition: A Theoretical Journey Multiple Choice Questions 1. ______________________ suggest that children have an innate ability to talk that is realized with minimal assistance from the environment. a. Social Interactionists b. Cognitivists c. Behaviorists d. Nativists e. None of the above 2. According

Chapter 3 Cognitive Development: Building a Foundation for Language Multiple Choice Questions 1. Piagets four stages of intellectual development in the correct order from birth to adolescence are: a. Formal operations, preoperational thought, sensorimotor intelligence, concrete operations b. Perceptual intelligence, distancing thought, post-operational intelligence, concrete operations c.

Chapter 4 In the Beginning: Communication Development from Birth to 2 Years Multiple Choice Questions 1. A 14-month-old child is on a walk with his grandpa and sees a hot air balloon nearby. He points excitedly at it as if to show his grandpa, who is also looking

Chapter 5 Children Learning Language: Participating in Language Samples Multiple Choice Questions 1. You are attempting to collect a language sample from a child who has an ear infection and has missed both of his naps today. Per his mother, he is more grumpy, shy and quiet than

Chapter 6 The Saga Continues: Language Development Through the Preschool Years Multiple Choice Questions 1. The child in stage 2 who says, him runned is exhibiting __________________________________________. a. Underextension of the progressive form of the auxiliary verb to be b. Correct use of irregular past tense c.

Chapter 7 Taking Language from Home to School Multiple Choice Questions 1. The most abstract and complicated type of word definition is: a. Categorical b. Operational c. Functional d. Dictionary e. Descriptive 2. Everything but the kitchen sink is an example of what? a. Idiom

Chapter 8 Development of Speech Sounds and Cultural Variations in Speech & Language Production Multiple Choice Questions 1. In traditional phonology, consonants are classified by all of the following except _________________________. a. Place of articulation b. Voicing c. Manner of articulation d. Phonological process e. These are

Chapter 9 Speech and Language Disorders in the Home, School, and Community Multiple Choice Questions 1. If it is said that the prevalence of stuttering in the United States is 1%, this means that: a. 1% of the U.S. population experiences stuttering at some point in their

Chapter 1 A Connection of Brains Chapter Overview This first chapter is designed to pique the readers interest in speech and language as processes within the broader process we call communication. As a future educator, the reader will be in a unique position to observe and facilitate the

Chapter 10 The Anatomical and Physiological Bases of Speech, Language, and Hearing Chapter Overview It is impossible to understand human speech without examining the anatomical structures and physiological processes that produce speech. Speech is, after all, the direct result of muscle contractions innervated by the nervous system that

Chapter 2 Language Acquisition: A Theoretical Journey Chapter Overview This chapter is designed to facilitate comprehension of the evolutionary changes that have occurred over the past 50 or more years in the theories of language acquisition. It considers the contributions made by each major theoretical view along the

Chapter 3 Cognitive Development: Building a Foundation for Language Chapter Overview In this chapter, the relationship between intellectual development and language development is addressed. Since language is a means by which people express what they are thinking, the relationship between cognition and language is certainly connected, but the

Chapter 4 In the Beginning: Communication Development from Birth to 2 Years Chapter Overview The next three chapters trace language development from birth through the school-age years. In this chapter, we consider language development from birth through two years. We emphasize that the child is a communicator from

Chapter 5 Children Learning Language: Participating in Language Samples Chapter Overview It makes sense that the best way we can know how a particular child is doing on his language journey at any moment in time is to take a careful look at his expressive language. What

Chapter 6 The Saga Continues: Language Development Through the Preschool Years Chapter Overview Welcome to the wild and wonderful preschool years, a time of inexhaustible energy, limitless curiosity, and explosive communication development. In this chapter, we examine the phenomenal changes in a childs communication abilities as she

Chapter 7 Taking Language from Home to School Chapter Overview Although much of language acquisition occurs from birth through the preschool years, development continues throughout the school years, especially during the primary grades. It is also true that people continue to add to their language knowledge and their

Chapter 8 Development of Speech Sounds and Cultural Variations in Speech & Language Production Chapter Overview The preceding chapters have focused primarily on language development, but frequent references have been made to speech, and occasionally, speech sounds. It should be emphasized that for the child with normal hearing

Chapter 9 Speech and Language Disorders in the Home, School, and Community Chapter Overview The acquisition of speech and language is so natural that we may not truly appreciate the complexity and power of human oral communication unless or until something goes wrong. In the United States, about