1) a speech act serves
a.to communicate information
b.to serve as an action
c.to determine the literal meaning of a sentence
d.to guide conversation
2) in the bock and
a.lemma
b.lexeme
c.morpheme
d.basic-level
3) bickertons (1984) preemption principle stated that when ______________, the
language bipogram was suppressed.
a.children were exposed to a second language
b.children had a sufficient amount of normal linguistic input
c.children were born deaf
d.chidren were linguistically deprived during the critical period
4) personalized words that children invent and use in highly idiosyncratic ways are
called:
a.overextensions
b.idiomorphs
c.variegated babbling
d.reduplicated babbling
5) in diamonds (1985) study of object permanence, infants as young as seven and a half
months were able to solve the problem if:
a.the object was hidden in a consistent place
b.their mother was present during testing
c.they were allowed to immediately search for the object
d.the object was only partially obscured
6) bloom, rocissano, and hood (1976) examined utterances in 19- to 38-month-old
children and found the largest developmental increase in _____ speech.
a.nonadjacent
b.noncontingent
c.imitative
d.contingent
7) mckoon and ratliffs (1980) study of spreading activation showed that the greatest
degree of priming was between propositions:
a.close in the discourse structure
b.close in the surface structure
c.similar in verbatim representation
d.concurrently represented in a situational model
8) according to lane (1976), victors delay in language acquisition was due to:
a.his isolation in the wild
b.his being mentally retarded or autistic
c.both (a) and (b)
d.neither (a) nor (b)
9) the way we construct and articulate utterances is known as:
a.language comprehension
b.language production
c.language acquisition
d.language development
10) shatz and gelman (1973) found that four-year-olds tended to simplify their speech
when talking to:
a.their own younger sibling
b.two-year-olds
c.children who appeared not to comprehend
d.the elderly
11) the movements of the eyes during reading are called:
a.fixations
b.fegressions
c.saccades
d.radicals
12) the effects of motherese on childrens syntactic development seems most clear in the
childs acquisition of:
a.negation
b.verb auxiliaries
c.pronouns
d.definite articles
13) the phonological rule a word cannot begin with two stop consonants is:
a.an adequate description of a phonological pattern
b.inadequate, in that it does not take syntax and semantics into account
c.inadequate, since the pattern can be described more generally
d.inadequate, since it is possible, though rare, for a sentence to begin with two stop
consonants
14) which of the following is an example of deep structure ambiguity?
a.they are eating apples.
b.flying planes can be dangerous.
c.john is easy to please.
d.the child thinks the man left.
15) in a spreading activation model, the process of lexical access begins with:
a.intersection search
b.activation of a single node
c.the selection of word-initial candidates
d.the identification of a unique recognition point
16) in general, speech directed at young children is _____ than adult-directed speech.
a.longer, higher in pitch, and more intonationally exaggerated
b.shorter, lower in pitch, and spoken in a monotone
c.shorter, higher in pitch, and more intonationally exaggerated
d.longer, lower in pitch, and spoken in a monotone