1) according to piaget, the transition from the sensorimotor period to the preoperational
is signaled by:
a.the appearance of the childs first word
b.the childs ability to walk unaided
c.deferred imitation and pretend play
d.the ability of a child to discriminate speech sounds
2) speakers are almost never interrupted when:
a.they look directly into the eyes of participants
b.they drop the pitch of their voice
c.they look away from participants
d.they close their eyes to signal that they are searching for the right word or expression
3) expressions such as im sorry, and or rather are examples of:
a.self-interruption
b.inner speech
c.accommodation
d.self-repair
4) meier and newport (1990) estimate that ______ of deaf children are born to deaf
parents.
a.5-10%
b.20-25%
c.30-50%
d.60-90%
5) studies of counting have found that chinese preschoolers are superior to american
preschoolers in counting:
a.from 1 to 10
b.from 11 to 99
c. from 99 up
d. in all numbers
6) childrens first negative sentences are of the form:
a.doggie no bite
b.no bite finger
c.doggie cant bite
d.finger bite no
7) according to brown and cazden (1973), a child was considered to have acquired a
morpheme (such as /ed/ to indicate past tense):
a.the first time it was used correctly
b.the first time it was used in appropriate context, whether correct or not
c.when it was used in 90% of its obligatory contexts
d.when the child noticed an adults incorrect use of the morpheme
8) when children reject a second name for an object whose name they already know,
they are using the:
a.mutual exclusivity bias
b.sensorimotor bias
c.whole object bias
d.taxonomic bias
9) the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon reveals how words in the mental lexicon are
organized:
a.categorically
b.phonologically
c.morphologically
d.hierarchically
10) the lack of invariance refers to the fact that there is no one-to-one correspondence
between:
a.formant transitions and steady states
b.acoustic cues and perceptual experience
c.articulatory processes and acoustic cues
d.speech signals and neurological processes
11) williams (1980) examined the acquisition of the spanish distinction between /p/
and /b/ in a group of native speakers of spanish learning english as a second language.
williams found that the spanish speakers:
a.could not acquire the distinction
b.showed a gradual shift from the spanish vot boundary to the english vot boundary
c.acquired this distinction very rapidly
d.all of the above
12) if a child said dada when she heard her father come in, what semantic relation is
involved?
a.naming
b.agent
c.action
d.object
13) the local structure of a text refers to:
a.the inferences readers draw during discourse comprehension
b.the relationships between individual sentences in a discourse
c.the distinction between given and new information
d.the process of referring back to previous material in discourse
14) a sentence uttered by a speaker corresponds to its:
a.phrase structure
b.deep structure
c.surface structure
d.syntax
15) despite considerable language deficits, wernickes patients are surprisingly easily
able to process:
a.idioms, such as as easy as pie
b.axial commands, such as turn around
c.slang, such as buzz off
d.metaphors, such as she was a ray of sunshine
16) hemispheric lateralization of species-specific vocalizations appears to be:
a.uniquely human
b.present in humans and primates, but absent in all other species
c.present in humans, primates and many other species, including birds
d.present in every species on the earth