Child's Language Development

Question 1

Frisch, Large & Pisoni

Answer 1

“Phonotactic probability has been found to affect repetition latency”

Question 2

Edwards, Beckman & Munson

Answer 2

“Difference in repetition accuracy between high and low frequency sequences of phonemes declines with age”

Question 3

Waxman

Answer 3

“Preschool children succeed at object labelling long before other levels”

Question 4

Mehler

Answer 4

“French and American infants are able to distinguish between utterances”

Question 5

Brown, Cross & Wells

Answer 5

“Most important factor of child’s speech is adults extending topics”

Question 6

Tizard & Hughes

Answer 6

“Children ask more questions than a teacher not asking questions”

Question 7

Snow & Goldfield

Answer 7

“Middle class parents include children in rich discussions on character motives”

Question 8

Cochran-Smith

Answer 8

“Teachers relate stories to a child’s own experiences”

Question 9

Teale & Martinez

Answer 9

“Teachers are people that adopt children different reading styles”

Question 10

Nelson & Bonvillian

Answer 10

“Younger children acquire unfamiliar words for unfamiliar object referents”

Question 11

Huttenlocher

Answer 11

“First words are not systematic comprehensively”

Question 12

Daneman & Case

Answer 12

“Semantic complexity influences coded world and affects comprehension”

Question 13

Chomsky

Answer 13

“Children from birth have a distinctive knowledge of a grammar rule”

Question 14

Pinker & Jackendoff

Answer 14

“Mechanisms for children have evolved from birth specifically for recursion”

Question 15

Skinner

Answer 15

“Language learning is a passive approach involving praise and punishment methods”

Question 16

Meltzoff

Answer 16

“Cross modal coordination helps children to distinguish perception from performance”

Question 17

Piaget

Answer 17

“Language development extracts meaningful patterns as a result of a child learning about environments”

Question 18

Vygotsky

Answer 18

“There is a constructivist exposure of vocabulary between thought and language”

Question 19

McCall

Answer 19

“Children lack all aptitude to comprehend language”

Question 20

Liebmann

Answer 20

“Insufficiency, mastering of singular words and word deafness are three sub types in children”

Question 21

Palmer

Answer 21

“Universal grammar has evolved in children”

Question 22

McNeill

Answer 22

“There is a division in children’s language between a knowledgeable universal base and transformational component”

Question 23

Bloomfield

Answer 23

“Natural language is a totality of expressions meaning that communicative competence has no connections with performance”

Question 24

Lakoff

Answer 24

“No one knows model social context of a child’s creativity”

Question 25

Berko

Answer 25

“There is a procurement of plural and other inflectional morphemes in English children”

Question 26

What is the Vegetative Stage?

Answer 26

Technical term for crying and natural uncreative sounds that a baby makes between 0-12 months

Question 27

What is the Cooing Stage?

Answer 27

Early sign of communication in babies between 2-5 months where it uses basic repetitive vowel sounds and occasional consonant sounds

Question 28

What is the Vocal Play Stage?

Answer 28

Intermediate stage where babies coo and babble at around 4-8 months

Question 29

What is the Holophrastic Period?

Answer 29

Period that is marked by the formation of the first word or single word utterances

Question 30

What is the Telegraphic Period?

Answer 30

Period where children begin to string words together in the form of a sentence, but using incomplete vocabulary