1) a characteristic that distinguishes each phoneme from every other is called a(n):
a.distinctive feature
b.morpheme
c.phone
d.inflection
2) children who have mastered object permanence begin to use words that refer to:
a.objects that dont move
b.objects that they can move or manipulate themselves
c.any object in the immediate environment
d.objects that are not immediately present
3) according to the text, knowing how to use gestures and words to show off objects,
make assertions, and make requests are aspects of:
a.fis phenomena
b.early phonology
c.communicative competence
d.discrimination performance
4) daneman and carpenter (1980) found that students with better performance on the
reading span task:
a.had more trouble comprehending anaphoric pronouns
b.had better verbal sat scores
c.were better at a simple span task
d.were slower readers
5) nativists argue that negative evidence about ungrammatical sentences:
a.helps children attain the grammar of their native language
b.is, in general, not available
c.is provided by parents to aid their childrens language acquisition
d.occurs when children are exposed to an utterance that is not corrected
6) an individual who listens in on a conversation without the speaker’s awareness is
called a(n):
a. eavesdropper
b.participant
c.overhearer
d.side participant
7) the inability to write is called:
a.aphasia
b.alexia
c.agraphia
d.pure word deafness
8) the (intonation) pitch used in child-directed speech:
a.mirrors the pitch contour of the childs voice
b.is purposefully more monotonous than in speech directed to an adult
c.does not differ from speech directed to an adult
d.is intentionally more exaggerated than speech directed to an adult
9) slobins list of operating principles explains:
a.universal patterns in child development
b.the steps by which children learn exceptions to regular verb forms
c.how child-directed speech facilitates acquisition
d.how children acquire a second language more easily than adults do
10) the effect of an utterance on a listener is its _____ effect.
a.locutionary
b.illocutionary
c.perlocutionary
d.indirect
11) cross-linguistic differences generally reflect:
a.the formal complexity of a language
b.the amount by which parents and caregivers use child-directed speech
c.individual differences among the children studied
d.the conceptual complexity of a language
12) which is of primary interest to behaviorists?
a.the study of internal mental events such as feelings or images
b.the underlying processes involved in translating thought to speech
c.the role of experience in shaping language behavior
d.how the poverty of stimulus affects language acquisition
13) sociolinguists study the linguistic behavior of:
a.individuals with language disorders
b.individuals who are bilingual
c.prelinguistic children
d.individuals engaged in social interaction
14) dells (1986) parallel model of language production differs from fromkins model in
that dells model:
a.includes semantic, syntactic, morphological, and phonological levels of processing
b.assumes that production becomes progressively more automatic over time
c.assumes that different levels of processing are active at the same time
d.assumes multiple levels of processing, with one process active at a time
15) hominids split from the chimpanzee and bonobo lines approximately:
a.2,000,000 years ago
b.150,000 years ago
c.2,000 years ago
d.6,000,000 years ago