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. Overgeneralization of regular past tense
d. Correct use of the subjective pronoun form
e. A and D
2. When attempting to make a conversational repair, the first strategy a young child might use is to
__________________________________________.
a. Change a word
b. Change a speech sound
c. Repeat the sentence
d. Delete a word
e. Change the word order of the utterance
3. We expect that a 24-month-old child will have approximately __________________ words.
a. 30–50
b. 50-100
c. 100–200
d. 200–300
e. 300–400
4. The question, “Can I have a cookie?” is most likely to emerge in which stage?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5
5. Which of the following phrase types develops first?
a. Gerunds
b. Infinitive phrases
c. Prepositional phrases
d. Participal phrases
e. C and A emerge at approximately the same time
6. An example of a deictic word pair is:
a. Here/there
b. This/that
c. I/you
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
7. The sequencing of ideas into simple stories is a skill that generally emerges in what stage?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5
8. A child’s ability to accurately comprehend wh–questions emerges in which order?
a. What, where, who then when, how, why
b. When, how, why then what, where, who
c. What, when, why then where, who, how
d. Who, what, why then where, when, how
e. What, when, where then who, how, why
9. __________________ refers to a group of skills that includes the ability to segment sentences into words,
multisyllabic words into syllables and syllables into sounds.
a. Print-concept knowledge
b. Alphabetic knowledge
c. Phonemic awareness
d. Phonological awareness
e. Figurative language
10. The age range and MLU for stage 3 is:
a. 25-40 months, 3.0-3.75
b. 38-46 months, 3.5-4.25
c. 27-30 months, 2.0-2.5
d. 28-36 months, 2.25-3.0
e. 31-34 months, 2.5-3.0
11. The first grammatical morpheme to develop is __________________.
a. in
b. –ing
c. –s
d. –ed
e. the, a
12. Which of the following utterances is the most likely negative form to be produced by a child in stage 2?
a. “Baby not cry”
b. “Mommy won’t play”
c. “Not milk”
d. “Him no go”
e. “I not eat”
13. An example of an anaphoric reference would be:
a. “Mary ate it.”
b. “Put the bowl here.”
c. “Me go fast.”
d. “Truck mine.”
e. “We gonna go?”
14. The __________________________________________ hypothesis suggests that the child who is exposed to
two languages from birth actually functions with a single language that is a hybrid of two distinctly different
languages that includes vocabulary and grammatical rules from both languages.
a. Unitary language system
b. Limited capacity
c. Dual language system
d. Binary language system
e. Hybrid language capacity
15. Children who are exposed to 2 languages in early childhood commonly and predictably experience more
challenges than monolingual children in what area(s)?
a. Acquiring grammatical forms
b. Accurate phonology usage
c. Correct use of subjective pronouns
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
Short Answer & Fill-in-the-Blank Questions
1. The word “walking” is an example of this verb tense: _______________________________________________
2. An example of a comparative is __________________________________________ and an example of a
superlative is __________________________________________
3. All research clearly states that _______________ is the optimal age for learning a second language.
4. Name two types of negation that emerge during stage 2:
__________________________________________________________________________________________
5. Ricky is a 5-year-old boy who mainly uses Spanish at home and English at school. Sometimes he uses Spanish
words in otherwise English sentences and confuses grammatical rules between the two languages. This is called
_________________________________________________________________________________________.
Essay Questions
1. Describe the acquisition of the 14 grammatical morphemes discussed by defining, giving an example and sharing
the age for expected acquisition for 7 of the morphemes.
2. Describe the expected development of conversational skills across stages 3 through 5. Give examples of what
occurs in each stage.
Contrast language development of the simultaneous bilingual versus the successive bilingual. Describe at least one
model of language development for each type with details regarding what would be observed in each stage.
The Saga Continues: Language Development Through the Preschool Years
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