1) a child who says baba for basket is illustrating:
a.reduction
b.coalescence
c.assimilation
d.reduplication
2) werker and tees (1984) examined how infants from english-speaking families
perceived phonemic contrasts from other languages (hindi and (salish/thompson). the
study showed that:
a.infant girls were better at perceiving non-native contrasts than infant boys were
b.infants perceived hindi contrasts better than the salish/thompson contrasts
c.the youngest infants studied could distinguish both contrasts, but the older infants
could not
d.none of the infants could distinguish any of the contrasts
3) an example of an english construction that does not obey the s-v-o order is:
a.the question form
b.the declarative sentence
c.the negative sentence
d.all of the above
4) to explain why children sometimes say ringed instead of rang, marcus (1986)
proposed that children:
a.have no past-tense rules for irregular words stored in memory
b.have formed incorrect associations between sound sequences within a complex neural
network
c.have stored irregular past tense rules, but occasionally misapply them
d.dont intrinsically understand time, so that the application of the rule is simply random
5) ___________ means one thing literally but is taken to mean something different.
a.felicity
b.pragmatic theory
c.relation
d.figurative language
6) children reputed to have been raised in the wild or by animals are known as:
a.hominid
b.feral
c.critical
d.biprogrammed
7) a test in which increasingly longer lists of items (such as numbers or words) are
presented for later recall is called a ________ test.
a.partial report
b.memory span
c.sketchpad
d.stroop
8) the study by decasper and spence (1986), in which mothers-to-be read a dr. seuss
book aloud during the last few weeks of their pregnancies, found evidence for:
a.prenatal learning and retention
b.the role of attachment in language acquisition
c.the soothing effect of adult reading on children
d.all of the above
9) _____ are involved when a bound morpheme is added to a free morpheme to create
new words, such as -ness turning good (an adjective) into goodness (a noun).
a.inflectional morphemes
b.functional morphemes
c.substantive morphemes
d.derivational morphemes
10) studies of categorical perception have found that:
a.it occurs for both consonants and vowels
b.it only occurs with intact speech syllables
c.it is found with chirps and bleats, but not backward syllables
d.it only occurs with consonants
11) _______ states that the more frequent a words usage, the shorter the words length.
a.the relativity hypothesis
b.sapirs theory
c.whorfs hypothesis
d.zipfs law