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In adults, _________________________ neighborhood density may positively
influence the integration of new word representations.
a. Low
b. Distant
c. High
d. Near
Initially, the possessive is attached only to ______________________.
a. Regular plurals
b. Irregular plurals
c. Inalienable objects
d. Single animate nouns
The ability to comprehend a proverb is strongly correlated with
_____________________.
a. Perceptual analogical reasoning
b. Theory of mind
c. Presuppositional skills
d. Frequency of exposure
Almost all right-handers and ___________ of left-handers are left-hemisphere
dominant for language.
a. 50%
b. 60%
c. 70%
d. 90%
__________________________ refers to the shifting from one language to another.
a. Sentence substitution
b. Successive bilingualism
c. Simultaneous bilingualism
d. Code switching
_________________________ and language develop interdependently and demonstrate
underlying cognitive development.
a. Narratives
b. Play
c. Dialog
d. Working memory
The _____________________ reflex is of most interest for speech development.
a. Suck-swallow
b. Phasic bite
c. Rooting
d. Gag
In general, the language of preschoolers with poorer ______________ is more
ambiguous or incomplete and poorly adapted to the listener's previous knowledge and
informational needs.
a. Language comprehension
b. Syntax
c. ToM
d. Semantics
_________________________ is a more mature version of a child's utterance in which
word order is preserved.
a. Extension
b. Expansion
c. Reformulation
d. Semantic contingency
____________________ is the ability to sustain attention over time.
a. Perception
b. Organization
c. Orientation
d. Reaction
What property of language allows us to communicate beyond the immediate context?
a. Reflexiveness
b. Arbitrariness
c. Generativity
d. Displacement
_______________________ learning begins to increase slowly after the acquisition of
about 100 words.
a. Nouns
b. Verbs
c. Prepositions
d. Adjectives
____________________ will not be fully mature until adulthood.
a. Higher linguistic functioning areas
b. White matter association tracts
c. Primary motor and sensory areas
d. Auditory receptor areas of the temporal lobes
_____________________ is the ability to take the perspective of another person.
a. Decentration
b. Nonegocentrism
c. Narrative perspective
d. Presumption
The ability to make same/different judgments seems to be related to development of
_______________________.
a. Prepositions
b. Order of mention
c. Relational terms
d. Conservation
__________________________ is breaking a word into its component sounds and then
blending them together to form a recognizable word.
a. Comprehension
b. Phonological representation
c. Encoding
d. Decoding
__________________________ is characterized by the fact that the speaker and
listener do not directly share the experience being communicated.
a. Theory of mind ability
b. Narrative development
c. Decontextualized language
d. Poor narration
An infant's attention is most easily captured by _______________.
a. Self-stimulation
b. Minimal stimulation
c. Moderate stimulation
d. High levels of stimulation
In ___________________________, a mother unconsciously modifies her own
behaviors so that she requires more child participation.
a. Cueing
b. Phonological processes
c. Child-directed speech
d. Pragmatic stimulation
In ___________________________, a reader is able to relate content to other
knowledge.
a. The basic decoding level
b. Critical literacy
c. Dynamic literacy
d. Mature literacy
Early human communication was likely
a. Speech-based
b. Gestural
b. Uncooperative
c. Grammatical
_____________________ is an example of stopping.
a. "tap" for 'sap"
b. "wan" for "ran"
c. "tat" for "cat"
d. "tan" for "can"
Positive factors such as easy soothability and frequent laughter at 6-12 months of age
are related to better ______________________ at 21 months.
a. Syntax
b. Social language skills
c. Receptive vocabulary
d. Joint attention
Typical seniors tend to have some difficulty in ___________________.
a. Speed of word retrieval
b. Vocabulary size
c. Use of indefinite words
d. Defining words
Usually, mastery is based on children using a feature in _______ of the obligatory
locations or based on _________ of the children using the feature consistently.
a. 50%, 50%
b. 50%, 90%
b. 90%, 50%
c. 90%, 90%
Formation of a link between a particular referent and a new name is called
___________________.
a. Overextension
b. Fast mapping
c. Underextension
d. Mapping sounds onto meaning
Fewer than ___________________ of a young preschooler's responses may be relevant
to the partner's previous utterance.
a. 10%
b. 20%
c. 40%
d. 70%
Consonant clusters are mastered by around age _____________.
a. 3-4
b. 5
c. 6-7
d. 10
In general, _______________________ are the recipients of more demands and
whining, and of shorter, less conversational narratives.
a. Parents
b. Teachers
c. Peers
d. Siblings
_______________________ is a pattern-finding strategy that accounts for how children
form linguistic categories, such as nouns and verbs.
a. Analogy
b. Schematization
c. Entrenchment
d. Functionally based distributional analysis
What are the speech characteristics of infants with deafness?
Name and define the two strategies of revision that children use.
Describe three steps involved in the language production process.
Describe deceleration and acceleration as the terms refer to bilingualism.
What is the difference between reduplicated babbling and variegated babbling?
Name at least two goals of child language research.
What are some examples of preliterate attempts at spelling?
Name at least four factors that influence the number and location of activated regions
for language.
What are three communication functions that are first fulfilled by prelinguistic means?
What is the principle of mutual exclusivity?
How can information processing theory help to explain how automaticity develops?
What are at least three drawbacks of structured collection methods for language?
What is the observer paradox?
What is the language acquisition device (LAD) and how do children (theoretically) use
the LAD?
How does a 9-year-old repair conversational breakdown?
What are three major characteristics of infant-directed speech?
What are the three types of fiber tracts in the brain and what do they connect?
What is the progression of the development of fetal sensation?
