Quiz 5 Qs

Question 1

Children’s latest questions are best exemplified by which statement below?

Answer 1

Wh questions

Question 2

Three- and four-year old children’s misinterpretation of passive sentences such as The car was pushed by the truck probably reflects:

Answer 2

Their use of an English word-order strategy

Question 3

Telegraphic speech is dominated by open class words

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Children’s earliest questions are usually

Answer 4

Statements with rising intonation

Question 5

Recent research using the preferential looking paradigm with very young children suggests that

Answer 5

language production lags behind comprehension

Question 6

Children understand reversible passives earlier than they understand irreversible passives.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

The word “with” would be considered

Answer 7

a closed class word

Question 8

Most children enter the two-word stage when they are four years old

Answer 8

False

Question 9

According to Brown’s guidelines for calculating a child’s MLU, compound words such as birthday should be _____________.

Answer 9

counted as a single morpheme

Question 10

__________ allow the grammatical inflection of words and are used to change the syntactic class of words.

Answer 10

Morphemes

Question 11

Middle class American parents generally socialize communicative competence in all of the following ways EXCEPT

Answer 11

Avoid playing simple games like “peek-a-boo”

Question 12

When are children most likely to produce indirect requests?

Answer 12

when speaking to adults & peers of higher status

Question 13

Which is a skill of pragmatics?

Answer 13

respond effectively to feedback

Question 14

Caregivers influence communicative competence by

Answer 14

Modeling, Evaluating, Providing an anticipatory suggestion

All of the above

Question 15

Children start learning to alternate turns while communicating with adults by

Answer 15

late infancy

Question 16

We know that communicative competence is important. Which one is not a way teachers can foster communicative competence?

Answer 16

acknowledge fewer utterances

Question 17

In some studies, fathers have been shown to be less tuned-in to their preschoolers’ communication than are mothers. According to the bridge hypothesis,

Answer 17

This prepares children to talk with people outside the family

Question 18

Forms of language that vary according to participants, settings and topics are often called _____________ .

Answer 18

speech registers

Question 19

When a child or even an adult attaches the phrase “would you please . . . as it would really help me” to a request is an example of which term listed below?

Answer 19

semantic mitigator

Question 20

If a child is asked by an adult phone caller “Is your mother at home?” and the child answers “Yes” and hangs up the child has _________________.

Answer 20

missed the illocutionary meaning of the adult’s utterance

Question 21

What skills are involved in communicative competence?

Answer 21

asking questions, 
making requests,
 telling stories, 
conclude conversations, 
initiate conversations, 
turn taking, 
appropriate tone of voice, 
when to use jargon, 
respond effectively to feedback, 
stay on topic, 
learn routines, 
maintain conversations

Question 22

How are adult interactions different from preschoolers?

Answer 22

topics,
tone of voice,
volume requesting,
turn taking

Question 23

Form a behavioral perspective the process of word learning involves

Answer 23

classical or associative conditioning

Question 24

Follower’s of Chomksy’s linguistic theory are generally not inserted in:

Answer 24

individual differences in language
They are interested in:
-the acquisition of grammatical morphemes
-linguistic parameters
-internal representations of grammar

Question 25

If a man menas to say “I’m on my way to the class” but actually says Im on my class to the way” this illustrates

Answer 25

the difference between competence and performance

Question 26

Gopnik’s position basically asserts which of the following?

Answer 26

that specific cognitive changes are associated with specific language changes

Question 27

The fact that there are too many possible sentences to learn in a short amount of time from a linguistic or nativistic perspective, defines:

Answer 27

learnability

Question 28

The apparent correlation between he development of object permanence and “disappearance” words supports the ________.

Answer 28

Cognitive interactionist Approach

Question 29

Studies of mothers talking to young children have shown

Answer 29

That mothers who use more CDS have children with more rapid language development.

Question 30

Harold used to forget to return his library books on time. Then his mom started making him clean the toilet (which he hates doing) every time he returned a book late. As a result, Harold forgets less often to return his books late anymore. In operant conditioning, the change in Harold’s behavior resulted from

Answer 30

Positive punishment

Question 31

The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is an actual, physiological part of the brain.

Answer 31

False

Question 32

One thing that has been proven about the Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is

Answer 32

NOT that it is a physiological part of the brain
NOT that is the only thing that can explain the rapidity of language learning int he later years
NOT that all normal children are born with one and it operates the same no matter the lang the child is exposed to (except eng and fre)
NONE OF THE ABOVE!!!!

Question 33

Studies of siblings have tended to show that

Answer 33

Later-borns use more phrasal speech

Question 34

Studies of the rate of language acquisition have shown that

Answer 34

Referential and expressive children achieve language milestones at the same age.

Question 35

Which of these children is most likely to learn the names for body parts early in the course of language development?

Answer 35

A child with a referential linguistic style

Question 36

Episodes of joint object attention have been shown to

Answer 36

Encourage production of more referential language

Question 37

Frozen phrases are

Answer 37

Longer linguistic units that may be produced before true word combinations

Question 38

Before the 1970s, child language research done by Chomsky was motivated almost exclusively by an interest in

Answer 38

The form or structure of child utterances

Question 39

One problem cited with Nelson’s categories of children’s styles was

Answer 39

• The use of parental reports as the source of data,
• the failure to take into account the frequency of word use,
• the classification scheme of the words themselves

Question 40

Nelson’s “expressive” children

Answer 40

Learned more pronouns and phrases than other children

Question 41

Variation in language learning has always been of interest to child language researchers.

Answer 41

False

Question 42

Referential children prefer nouns in their early speech

Answer 42

True