Lecture 6- Language Acquisition

Question 1

Learning language involves which skills

Answer 1

• Association
• Generalisation
• Recognition
• Retrieval

Question 2

Language acquisition uses

Answer 2

Domain general skills

Question 3

A lot of language acquisitions is

Answer 3

Learning patterns

Question 4

Comprehension precedes

Answer 4

Production

Question 5

What is comprehension

Answer 5

Understanding what others communicate

Question 6

What is production

Answer 6

Communicating to others

Question 7

Middle and high socio-economic status (SES) are more

Answer 7

Talkative

Question 8

Children with more talkative caregivers learn

Answer 8

New words faster

Question 9

At 18 months old children from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds produce

Answer 9

Fewer words

Question 10

Children from low socio economic status (SES) backgrounds produce

Answer 10

Less complex sentences

Question 11

By 24 months there is how much of a gap between socio economic status (SES) groups

Answer 11

6 month language gap

Question 12

Foetuses can hear from

Answer 12

15-18 weeks

Question 13

What is cadence

Answer 13

The rhythm of language/ speech

Question 14

How do infants know where the breaks are

Answer 14

• Pitch

- Pauses

Question 15

8 month old infants could distinguish between

Answer 15

Words and part words

Question 16

Infant directed speech exaggerates

Answer 16

Differences between vowels

Question 17

7 month infants learned words significantly better if

Answer 17

IDS was used

Question 18

Children who hear more child directed speech (CDS) have

Answer 18

Larger vocabularies

Question 19

5 year olds understand sentences better in

Answer 19

Child directed speech (CDS)

Question 20

By 4.5 months old infants recognise

Answer 20

Their own names

Question 21

By 6 months old infants understand

Answer 21

“Mommy” and “daddy”

Question 22

By 6-9 months old infants show understanding of

Answer 22

Some words for familiar objects

Question 23

Children with repeated failures in recognising names were diagnosed with

Answer 23

ASD earlier than other children with ASD

Question 24

Monolingual and bilingual children develop

Answer 24

Overall similarly

Question 25

Most of children’s early vocabulary are words for

Answer 25

Solid, shape based categories with count noun syntax

Question 26

If a shape bias is learned by learning words

Answer 26

We should be able to teach a shape bias through vocabulary training

Question 27

Children trained on shape categories developed a

Answer 27

Precocious shape bias

Question 28

Children trained on shape categories over

Answer 28

Generalised the shape bias to non solid substances