Childrens Language Development (test)

Question 1

Who theorised that babies become acclimatised to native sounds in the womb?

Answer 1

Mehlier (1978)

Question 2

Name the 5 stages of language acquisition

Answer 2

Preverbal, holophrastic, Two word, telegraphic, post-telegraphic

Question 3

What noises are considered biological noises?

Answer 3

Vomiting, crying etc.

Question 4

How did crystal (1986) describe cooing and laughing?

Answer 4

Quieter, lower pitch, melodic

Question 5

What are the alternative names for cooing?

Answer 5

Mewing

Question 6

Which type of sound is the most common during the babbling stage?

Answer 6

Bilabial

Question 7

What is the difference between reduplication and variegated babbling?

Answer 7

reduplication: where the same vowel or constant combination is repeated
variegated: where different vowel or constant combination is repeated

Question 8

Define phonemic contraction and when this typically occurs

Answer 8

the number of phonemes produced reduces (preverbal stage)

Question 9

Typically at what age does a child say their first word?

Answer 9

1 year

Question 10

Name Katherine Nelson’s (1973) 4 categories for a child’s first word

Answer 10

1) personal/ social
2) actions/ events
3) modifying things
4) naming things

Question 11

Define overextension

Answer 11

Using a specific word for a generalised noun

Question 12

What is the difference between analogical and categorical overextension?

Answer 12

Analogical: similar properties
Categorical: same category

Question 13

At what age does the two-word stage begin?

Answer 13

18-24 months

Question 14

What are ‘pivot words’ and who theorised this concept?

Answer 14

words that can be applied in many ways and allow for vocabulary extension, George brane

Question 15

In 1973, who theorised that there was a particular semantic relationship between word choice and structure

Answer 15

Roger brown

Question 16

At what age does the telegraphic stage begin?

Answer 16

24-30 months

Question 17

Which 4 lexical classes are omitted the most during this stage of development? (24-30 months)

Answer 17

Auxiliary, articles, conjunctions and prepositions

Question 18

Define virtuous error

Answer 18

Overgeneralise rules of grammar

Question 19

Who pioneered the WUG test and what did they find?

Answer 19

Jean Berko, found children to apply rules of making words plural on a nonsense word wug

Question 20

Define child directed speech

Answer 20

The speech a caregiver uses to aid the child’s speech development

Question 21

Who found that children whose mothers talk more have larger vocabularies?

Answer 21

Clarke-Stewart

Question 22

What did brown et al mean by ‘truth value’?

Answer 22

Parents respond to children if what they said is true- not if it is grammatically correct

Question 23

What conclusion did snow and Ferguson (1977) make about CDS?

Answer 23

Positive correlation between expansion/recasts and syntactic development

Question 24

Name the 3 E models of CDS

Answer 24

Elicit, elucidate, elaborate

Question 25

At what age does the post- telegraphic stage begin?

Answer 25

+3 years

Question 26

Identify 3 grammatical features which emerge during the post- telegraphic stage

Answer 26

• subject verb order, ability to adapt words to their context (plurals or past tense)
• use of conjunctions
• auxiliary verbs