Chapter 9: Language Development

Question 1

Are human and non-human communication similar?

Answer 1

No, qualitatively different.

Question 2

What makes human language different from animal communication?

Answer 2

Symbolic
Grammatical

Question 3

What does symbolic mean?

Answer 3

Arbitrary symbols present something other than themselves.

Question 4

What does grammatical mean?

Answer 4

System of rules allowing for understanding of sentences never uttered before.

Question 5

Language is a _ ability, we all acquire without coaching.

Answer 5

Primary.

Question 6

What are the 5 aspects of language?

Answer 6

Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics

Question 7

What is phonological development?

Answer 7

Develop sounds

Question 8

What is babbling?

Answer 8

Speech mimicry in babies.

Question 9

When do babies usually say their first word?

Answer 9

6 months

Question 10

When do cooing and laughing begin?

Answer 10

2 to 4 months

Question 11

What is phonemic awareness?

Answer 11

Figuring out that words consist of separable sounds

Question 12

Babies repeat their mother’s intonation. What does that mean?

Answer 12

Speech rhythm of babies matches moms

Question 13

Once children are 6-9, what percentage of their language is correct?

Answer 13

75%W

Question 14

What is a morpheme?

Answer 14

How we can structure words (-ed, -s).

Question 15

What are free morphemes?

Answer 15

Morphemes that can stand on their own, like duck.

Question 16

What is a bound morpheme?

Answer 16

Prefixes or suffixes, words that cant stand alone.

Question 17

What is the Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)? How does it develop?

Answer 17

of morphemes in a sentence. Gets bigger as time goes on.

Question 18

What is overregularization?

Answer 18

Using morphological rules on the wrong words (ex. mouses)

Question 19

What is the wug test?

Answer 19

This is a wug, now there is another one, that means there are two_.

Question 20

What is syntactic development?

Answer 20

Learning words.

Question 21

At 18 months, kids begin to learn about _ words per month.

Answer 21

Two

Question 22

What are holophrases?

Answer 22

1 word. but gets what they demand.

Question 23

What is telegraphic speech? (end of second year)

Answer 23

Omitting less important words, emma go bed now.

Question 24

Toddlers use many negatives, and use them wrong. Give an example.

Answer 24

I no do it.

Question 25

Questions aren’t asked with all the words in toddlers, they just use raised…

Answer 25

Intonation.

Question 26

Kids do not get passive sentences until they are 5-6. Give a passive sentence.

Answer 26

Ball hit by sally

Question 27

When do children get WH questions?

Answer 27

3

Question 28

6-7 year olds have _ speech.

Answer 28

Adultlike speech.

Question 29

What is the word spurt?

Answer 29

At 18 months, rapid learning of words.

Question 30

At around 18 months, kids begin to learn around _ to _ words per month.

Answer 30

22 to 37