Quiz 7: Language Development Flashcards
A one-word utterance that is used to communicate any of a range of meanings is referred to as…
a holophrase.
(A holophrase is a one word sentence that is often spoken in a manner to covey additional meaning. Such as “juice”, which can be spoken in a way by an infant to convey to others, “I would like more juice.”)
The system of language that corresponds to the practical usage of language is …
pragmatics
Pragmatics deal with pratical langauge use in real contexts with others speakers and listeners.
Sam has not yet acquired all of the morphemes that are commonly used by speakers of English. As a result, he produces utterances like “mommy sock,” “more juice,” and “no cookie.” These utterances are examples of…
telegraphic speech.
(Telegraphic speech refers to the abbreviated form of speech that often lacks proper morphemes such as “mommy sock” instead of “mommy’s sock.”)
Studies of overregularization – the phenomenon in which children say “mouses” or falled” instead of “mice” or “fell” – indicate that…
the more often parents correctly use an irregular form, the less often children overregularize it.
(Children learn language in context by listening to others. When parents correctly use irregular forms of words, children overregularize less frequently.)
All of the following characteristics are found in the language of children with autism except…
an atypical order of acquisition of grammatical morphemes.
(Children with autism typically aquire grammatical morphemes in the same order as normally developing children (see page 258)
Studies of morpheme acquisition have shown all of the following except…
morphemes that are acquired first are phonologically easier than morphemes that are acquired later.
Andrew’s mother brings him to a university laboratory to participate in a study of language acquisition but is surprised that the researchers play recordings of nonsense sentences, comprised of invented words such as boga, giku, kuga, and gapi. Andrew is most likely participating in a study designed to…
test his ability to learn to recognize different kinds of recurring patterns
(Nonsense terms are commonly used to study pattern recognitions in infancy.)
In all spoken languages, there are variations of sound that function as speech units and signal differences in words through combinations of vowels and consonants. These are called…
phonemes.
Phonemes are the basic units of sound in all language systems
Compared with children from higher-income households, children from lower-income families…
tend to have fewer words per hour directed to them.
