CSD 333: Exam #1 || A+ GRADED.
The process by which children deduce grammatical structures by using word meanings they
acquire from observing events around them and use correspondences between semantics and
syntax to determine the syntactic category to which each word belongs is called _____
bootstrapping: correct answers Semantic
Which of the following provides an account specifically of how incorrect child grammatical
forms associated with overregularization "die out" over time?: correct answers Competition
Model
Mommy is sleeping" reflects which of the following verb tenses?: correct answers Present
Progressive
The problem of how children learn where one word stops and the next begins is called the
word _____ problem: correct answers Segmentation
Which of the following are function words?: correct answers Could, But, An, Is (All of the
above)
Which of the following is not an early-occurring consonant?: correct answers None of the
above (S,R,CH)
In order to have achieved mastery of a given grammatical morpheme, a child must use it
correctly in at least 90% of obligatory contexts: correct answers False
True or false: Some common grammatical morphemes are pre-, -er, and -ly: correct answers
False
All of the following consonants typically develop by about 4 years except?: correct answers
"th" as in "this"
Which of the following terms best describes the difference between the minimal pairs?:
correct answers Phoneme
Phonological awareness tasks include all of the following: syllable counting, rhyme
detection, initial sound identification, and initial sound elision: correct answers True
Children sometimes distinguish phoneme sounds in production, but adults can't hear the
difference. What does this phenomenon called?: correct answers Covert Contrast
Children are able to break up a continuous speech stream into words by a complex process
that is not just limited to picking out discontinuities: correct answers True
Which one of the following pairs showing a statement and a theory does not match?: correct
answers Modularity Theory; the same types of input drive language development forward in
different areas, such as the lexicon, syntax and morphology.
The sentence "The girl is happy" reflects which of the following usages of the word "be"?:
correct answers Contractible copula
The process by which children deduce grammatical structures by using word meanings they
acquire from observing events around them and use correspondences between semantics and
syntax to determine the syntactic category to which each word belongs is called _____
bootstrapping: correct answers Semantic
Which of the following provides an account specifically of how incorrect child grammatical
forms associated with overregularization "die out" over time?: correct answers Competition
Model
Mommy is sleeping" reflects which of the following verb tenses?: correct answers Present
Progressive
The problem of how children learn where one word stops and the next begins is called the
word _____ problem: correct answers Segmentation
Which of the following are function words?: correct answers Could, But, An, Is (All of the
above)
Which of the following is not an early-occurring consonant?: correct answers None of the
above (S,R,CH)
In order to have achieved mastery of a given grammatical morpheme, a child must use it
correctly in at least 90% of obligatory contexts: correct answers False
True or false: Some common grammatical morphemes are pre-, -er, and -ly: correct answers
False
All of the following consonants typically develop by about 4 years except?: correct answers
"th" as in "this"
Which of the following terms best describes the difference between the minimal pairs?:
correct answers Phoneme
Phonological awareness tasks include all of the following: syllable counting, rhyme
detection, initial sound identification, and initial sound elision: correct answers True
Children sometimes distinguish phoneme sounds in production, but adults can't hear the
difference. What does this phenomenon called?: correct answers Covert Contrast
Children are able to break up a continuous speech stream into words by a complex process
that is not just limited to picking out discontinuities: correct answers True
Which one of the following pairs showing a statement and a theory does not match?: correct
answers Modularity Theory; the same types of input drive language development forward in
different areas, such as the lexicon, syntax and morphology.
The sentence "The girl is happy" reflects which of the following usages of the word "be"?:
correct answers Contractible copula
