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How could scientists test infants' ability to perceive language sounds? At what age
can infants distinguish vowels and consonants? - correct answer ✔✔Habituation.
By 1 month.
What is cooing? What is babbling? - correct answer ✔✔cooing - ( 2
Months)Vowel-like sounds’", "ahhh"
babbling- (6-10 Months) Speech-like sounds with no meaning Precursor to real
speech"Baahahah"
What does naming explosion mean? At what age does explosion occur? - correct
answer ✔✔Learning new words, particularly names of objects. Occurs btwn 15
and 24 months.
How can adults promote children's word learning? - correct answer ✔✔•labeling
unfamiliar objects
-"banana, that's a banana"
•naming games
-"where's your nose?" "Where's your tummy"
What does fast mapping mean? Know about - correct answer ✔✔Process of
rapidly learning a new word simply from hearing the contrastive use of a familiar
word and the unfamiliar word.("Get the chromium tray, not the red one.")
, mutual exclusivity - correct answer ✔✔Expectancy that a given entity will have
only one name.("Show me the Blicket.", *Toddler shown 2 objects (teddy bear &
unfamiliar object): they know what teddy bear is.)
whole object assumption - correct answer ✔✔Expectant that a novel word refers
to a whole objects, rather than to a part, property, action, or other aspects of the
object.("Dinosaur")
syntactic bootstrapping - correct answer ✔✔Using the grammatical structure of
whole sentences to figure out meaning.("The Duck is kradding the Rabbit.")("The
rabbit and the duck are kradding.")
Understand two naming errors, under-extension and overextension. - correct
answer ✔✔Defining a word too narrowly(Saying a car is only for a family car, or a
ball is only for a favorite toy ball.)
Defining a word too broadly(Saying a dog is any four-legged animal, or a car is only
for buses and trucks.)
What does telegraphic speech mean? - correct answer ✔✔Two-word sentences at
1.5 years/18 months("Gimme cookie", "More juice")2nd B-day they begin to have
longer sentences filled with grammatical morphemes.... "I am kicking the ball".)
How did the scientist test young children's ability to make a plural? - correct
answer ✔✔?
Understand how language skills change during adult years. When does the "tip-of-
the-tounge phenomenon" become readily apparent? - correct answer
✔✔Maintain language skills Some reduction in language in late adulthood
Tip of tongue pheno becomes apparent during late adulthood.