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___________________ is a verbal means of communicating that requires very precise
neuromuscular coordination.
a. Phonology
b. Language
c. Speech
d. Communication
The _____________________ is used in English to indicate an activity that is currently
or was recently in progress and is of temporary duration.
a. Progressive verb tense
b. SVO word order
c. Present verb tense
d. Past tense
Phrases such as "perhaps" or "to be honest" are examples of ________________.
a. Adverbial conjuncts
b. Concordant conjuncts
c. Adverbial disjuncts
d. Discordant conjuncts
Children with a ____________________ style have more adult contacts and use a
bottom-up strategy to build utterances.
a. Expressive
b. Representational
c. Referential
d. Experiential
________________________ is detrimental to the learning of either language in
bilingualism.
a. Semantic confusion
b. Mixing syntax
c. Simultaneous acquisition
d. Code switching
Language sampling can be affected by the amount of language, the intelligibility of the
child, and ___________________.
a. The family's cooperation
b. The presence of a disorder
c. The effect of context
d. The child's general intelligence
______________________ consist of roughly equivalent words that divide an
experience into multiple units.
a. Word combination
b. Pivot schemas
c. Semantic equivalencies
d. Item-based constructions
Children understand the superlative by about ___________ and the comparative around
age ____________________.
a. 5; 3
b. 2; 3
c. 3 ; 2
d. 3 ; 5
______________________ occurs when a sentence produced by one speaker influences
the sentences of a second speaker.
a. Anticipatory coarticulation
b. Priming
c. Reverse assimilation
d. Dialog
In the development of narratives, causal relationships move toward the ending of the
initial situation, called ___________________.
a. An episode
b. The problem
c. The climax
d. A script
The copula is not mastered until age _____________.
a. 2
b. 4
c. 8
d. 10
In the ________________________ form, the speaker requests, demands, asks, insists,
commands, and so on that the listener perform some act.
a. Imperative
b. Declarative
c. Interrogative
d. Exclamatory
Infants imitate _________________ by 8-10 months.
a. Simple motor behaviors
b. Basic ASL
c. Early words
d. Prosody
In ___________________, a language feature is used where it is not required.
a. Overextension
b. Generalization
c. Expansion
d. Marking
A 3- to 4-year-old child uses more ____________________ responses that omit shared
information.
a. Pronominal
b. Deictic
c. ToM
d. Elliptical
Good visual ___________________ is related to good comprehension and gestural
communication in toddlers and better receptive and expressive language in
preschoolers.
a. Episodic memory
b. Recall memory
c. Representations
d. Recognition memory
A component of the reference principle called __________________________
presupposes that each referent has a unique symbol.
a. Whole object principle
b. Categorical assumption
c. Conventionality assumption
d. Mutual exclusivity
________________________ predominate in the first 50 words.
a. Verbs
b. Adjectives
c. Nouns
d. Adverbs
The ___________________ hypothesis focuses on motion features rather than static
perceptual features.
a. Functional-core
b. Semantic feature
c. Associative complex
d. Prototypic complex
Studies of __________________ attempt to determine whether development is the
result of universal cognitive development or unique linguistic knowledge.
a. Universality
b. Linguistic specificity
c. Relative difficulty
d. Acquisitional principles
____________________ is the search for patterns in sensory information.
a. Perception
b. Information processing
c. Vision
d. Discrimination
Sustained abstract discussions emerge around age ______________.
a. 6
b. 9
c. 11
d. 14
There is a threefold increase in the number of written ______________________
sentences between ages 8 and 13.
a. Passive
b. Interrogative
c. Imperative
d. Active
_________________________ demonstrates an analytical approach to spelling and
facilitates the integration of phonological and orthographic knowledge.
a. Phonemic spelling
b. Orthographic spelling
c. Mature spelling
d. Invented spelling
By age ____________, infants are alert to the subtle stress placed on new words by
adults and that this stress aids word learning.
a. 9 months
b. 1 year
c. 18 months
d. 2 years
Most of the major kinship terms are understood by age _____________.
a. 4
b. 7
c. 10
d. 12
A(n) ________________________ in English consists of an initiating event, an internal
response, a plan, an attempt, a consequence, and a reaction.
a. Story
b. Episode
c. Personal narrative
d. Fictional narrative
___________________________ is/are one of the most significant differences between
the narrative syntactic structures of 6- to 8-year-olds and 10- to 12-year-olds.
a. Relative pronoun deletion
b. Subject relative clause embedding
c. Relative pronoun use
d. Multiple embeddings
________________________ contain the initial elements of emerging conversation.
a. Protoconversations
b. PCFs
c. Gestural interactions
d. Routines
With aging, there is a slow decline in _______________________.
a. Production of complex syntax
b. Decoding text
c. Theory of mind
d. Inferencing
As a group, _______________________ are acquired first.
a. Plosives
b. Fricatives
c. Nasals
d. Affricates
The ability to detect _________________________ improves with age and
metalinguistic skill.
a. Communication breakdown
b. Grammatical errors
c. Dialectal variations
d. Country of origin
In general, _________________________ tend to be more verbose.
a. Adolescents
b. Men
c. Women
d. Children
How do preschool boys and girls differ in their use of "no"?
Name the three types of passives.
What two strategies do children use when organizing narratives?
What are the three basic brain functions and what areas of the brain are involved in
each?
What is the progression of changes in question form?
Discuss the functions for which Broca's area is important.
How does a mother of a newborn maintain an optimal state of infant wakefulness?
How is the register of politeness achieved?
Name two episodes of the play sequence that can occur several times per minute.
The manner of storytelling varies with culture. What is the focus of narratives of
Chinese children?
Name and define/describe the three aspects of early joint referencing.
What are the six pragmatic categories that describe the general purposes of language?
Define referencing and give examples of a mother's behaviors.
Name and define the four narrative genres.
What are the three levels of text comprehension?
