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Which is considered by some sociolinguist to be the organizing principle of language?
a. Syntax
b. Pragmatics
c. Morphology
d. Phonology
Neurons migrate to form specialized areas of function beginning at ___________.
a. 2 months gestation
b. 4 months gestation
c. 6 months gestation
d. 8 months gestation
At age ________________, a child begins to use some modal auxiliary verbs in indirect
requests.
a. 2
b. 3
c. 5
d. 7
The __________________ is the miniscule space between neurons through which
chemical-electrical signals "jump."
a. Axon
b. Dendrite
c. Synapse
d. Myelin
Until ________________________, young writers need adult guidance in planning and
revising their writing.
a. 2nd grade
b. 4th grade
c. 5th grade
d. Adolescence
By age _________, the brain has reached its fully mature weight.
a. 10
b. 12
c. 16
d. 18
____________________ contain(s) word and symbol definitions and is primarily
verbal; it forms each person's lexicon.
a. Semantic features
b. Word knowledge
c. Lexical retrieval
d. Semantic status
At what age would a child be able to comprehend or use a pronoun in the place of an
entire clause?
a. 6
b. 10
c. 12
d. 15
____________________ is the study of the neuroanatomy, physiology, and
biochemistry of language.
a. Neuroscience
b. Neuropsychology
c. Neurophysiology
d. Neurolinguistics
Receptive vocabulary grows to an understanding of about __________________ words
by 6th grade.
a. 2,200
b. 5,000
c. 20,000
d. 50,000
By age _______________, children are using language to acquire more language.
a. 2-3
b. 4-7
c. 7-9
d. 10-11
Around _________________, children can generally look at their partners at the
beginning of a vocal turn.
a. 3 months
b. 5 months
c. 8 months
d. 12 months
Prior to storage, incoming information is transmitted to the __________________ in
the left temporal lobe for consolidation.
a. Amygdala
b. Hippocampus
c. Angular gyrus
d. Arcuate fasciculus
English has approximately _____________ phonemes.
a. 23
b. 36
c. 43
d. 62
_________________________ means that the narrative does not center on some
immediate experience.
a. Explicitness
b. Individualism
c. Decontextualization
d. Structuring
The _____________________ basis for cooperative communication is mainly joint
attention.
a. Social-motivational
b. Social-linguistic
c. Social-cognitive
d. Social-semantic
The peripheral nervous system consists of _________ cranial nerves and ________
spinal nerves.
a. 6; 26
b. 21; 13
c. 12; 31
d. 13; 24
It may take __________________ years to obtain cognitive-academic proficiency in
L2.
a. 1-2
b. 3-4
c. 6-7
d. 10
Initially, the negative element "no" appears _________________________.
a. As a contracted form
b. Prior to the subject
c. Prior to the verb
d. In the final position of an utterance
Language begins around the time of __________________________.
a. Birth
b. Sound combinations
c. 2-3 word combinations
d. The first word
Different styles of speaking are called _________________________.
a. Languages
b. Registers
c. Scripts
d. Roles
By age 4, children use approximately __________________ words per day.
a. 1500-1600
b. 3000
c. 7500-9000
d. 15,000
_______________________ concerns the dynamics of the event relative to its
completion, repetition, or continuing duration.
a. Tense
b. Aspect
c. Flexible reference
d. Event scripts
_________________ consists of long strings of unintelligible sounds with adult-like
prosody.
a. Echolalia
b. Jargon
c. Phonetically consistent forms
d. Reduplicated babbling
___________________ is concerned with the internal organization of words.
a. Syntax
b. Semantics
c. Pragmatics
d. Morphology
e. Phonology
_________________________ errors predominate in the writing of children and young
teens.
a. Phonologic
b. Morphologic representation
c. Orthographic
d. Morphophonemic
Irregular forms may be more closely related to __________________ information.
a. Semantic
b. Morphologic
c. Syntactic
d. Phonological
At 2 years of age, female children receive more
a. Questions
b. Nurturing
c. Directives
d. Attention
________________________ is the ability to understand the minds of other people and
to comprehend and predict their behavior.
a. Theory of mind
b. Awareness
c. Gnosis
d. Inferencing
An American English-speaking 3-year-old has an expressive vocabulary of
___________________.
a. 500
b. 900-1000
c. 400-500
d. 12,000
The ability to talk about language, analyze it, think about it, judge it, and see it as an
entity separate from its content or out of context is called
a. Metalinguistics
b. Nonlinguistics
c. Paralinguistics
d. Proxemics
English-speaking children understand early that in noun phrases,
_______________________________.
a. Adjectives precede nouns
b. Nouns precede adjectives
c. Adjectives precede pronouns
d. Articles precede proper nouns
By _________________, an infant vocalizes in response to the speech of others and is
most responsive if his or her caregivers respond.
a. 3 months
b. 5 months
c. 7 months
d. 11 months
