Chapter 11, 8 Language Development, Chapter 11 - Module
8, DP Chapter 11, Psych 2450 - Chapter 11 Questions,
Chapter 11: Development of Language and Communication
Skills, developmental aspects of communication, Language
and Communication, Language De...
1. Phonology Correct Answers The sound system of a language
and the rules for combining these sounds to produce meaningful
units of speech.
1. The Learning (or Empiricist) Perspective Correct Answers •
Children acquire language as they imitate others' speech and are
reinforced for grammatically correct utterances
• Adults use child-directed speech and reshape their primitive
sentences with expansion and recasts
• Children will acquire language as long as they have partners
with whom to converse, even without these environmental
supports
10. The sentence "The speeding the raced city through streets
car" would be difficult for an English speaker to understand
because it violates a basic set of rules of the English language.
What rules are violated?
a.
syntax
b.
morphology
c.
semantics
d.
pragmatics Correct Answers syntax
,100. When young children overregularize and produce forms
such as tooths, satted, or goed, as well as correct forms (e.g.,
walked, played, and cars), what are they demonstrating?
a.
that they do not yet understand grammatical transformation rules
b.
that they have learned a rule for producing word endings, but
they have failed to retrieve the correct form of an irregular word
c.
that they are imitating the "baby talk" of other young children
d.
that their parents must be providing poor language models for
them or failing to correct the child's mistakes Correct Answers
that they have learned a rule for producing word endings, but
they have failed to retrieve the correct form of an irregular word
101. Sometimes children will correctly use irregular words such
as feet or went for a time and then begin making errors such as
foots or goed. What do these errors indicate?
a.
that the child is spending too much time hearing other children's
errors
b.
that the parents have not provided sufficient reinforcement and
feedback for correctly using these words
c.
that the child is highly motivated
d.
,that there has been an advance in the child's syntactical
knowledge Correct Answers that there has been an advance in
the child's syntactical knowledge
102. Which of the following does not involve grammatical
overregularization?
a.
"I goed home."
b.
"I patted the sheeps at the petting zoo."
c.
"Daddy finded a cookie."
d.
"Doggie ate his water." Correct Answers "Doggie ate his
water."
103. What have studies of the acquisition of questions and
negatives shown?
a.
Children do not typically produce utterances containing question
words or negative markers until near school age.
b.
They are produced only after children have perfected auxiliary
verbs and verb endings.
c.
Negative and question words emerge during the holophrastic
stage.
d.
Initially children use a wh- word or negative markers (no, not)
during the early telegraphic period. Correct Answers Initially
, children use a wh- word or negative markers (no, not) during the
early telegraphic period.
104. Which of the following would be most likely to appear in a
2-year-old's spontaneous conversation?
a.
what, where, and who questions because these all have concrete
referents
b.
why, when, and how questions because the referents are abstract
c.
use of all the wh- question words, but incorrectly
d.
little use of wh- question words at all at this age Correct
Answers what, where, and who questions because these all have
concrete referents
105. You are listening as two young children, Yolanda and
Bruno, talk to their fathers at the playground. Yolanda points to
almost everything she sees and asks her father, "What that?"
Bruno can't seem to stop asking his father "Why?" Based on the
research into the development of question asking in young
children, what might you reasonably conclude about the
children's ages?
a.
Both children are the same age, because both are asking
questions that have concrete referents.
b.
Bruno is somewhat older than Yolanda, because his questions
have abstract referents.
c.
8, DP Chapter 11, Psych 2450 - Chapter 11 Questions,
Chapter 11: Development of Language and Communication
Skills, developmental aspects of communication, Language
and Communication, Language De...
1. Phonology Correct Answers The sound system of a language
and the rules for combining these sounds to produce meaningful
units of speech.
1. The Learning (or Empiricist) Perspective Correct Answers •
Children acquire language as they imitate others' speech and are
reinforced for grammatically correct utterances
• Adults use child-directed speech and reshape their primitive
sentences with expansion and recasts
• Children will acquire language as long as they have partners
with whom to converse, even without these environmental
supports
10. The sentence "The speeding the raced city through streets
car" would be difficult for an English speaker to understand
because it violates a basic set of rules of the English language.
What rules are violated?
a.
syntax
b.
morphology
c.
semantics
d.
pragmatics Correct Answers syntax
,100. When young children overregularize and produce forms
such as tooths, satted, or goed, as well as correct forms (e.g.,
walked, played, and cars), what are they demonstrating?
a.
that they do not yet understand grammatical transformation rules
b.
that they have learned a rule for producing word endings, but
they have failed to retrieve the correct form of an irregular word
c.
that they are imitating the "baby talk" of other young children
d.
that their parents must be providing poor language models for
them or failing to correct the child's mistakes Correct Answers
that they have learned a rule for producing word endings, but
they have failed to retrieve the correct form of an irregular word
101. Sometimes children will correctly use irregular words such
as feet or went for a time and then begin making errors such as
foots or goed. What do these errors indicate?
a.
that the child is spending too much time hearing other children's
errors
b.
that the parents have not provided sufficient reinforcement and
feedback for correctly using these words
c.
that the child is highly motivated
d.
,that there has been an advance in the child's syntactical
knowledge Correct Answers that there has been an advance in
the child's syntactical knowledge
102. Which of the following does not involve grammatical
overregularization?
a.
"I goed home."
b.
"I patted the sheeps at the petting zoo."
c.
"Daddy finded a cookie."
d.
"Doggie ate his water." Correct Answers "Doggie ate his
water."
103. What have studies of the acquisition of questions and
negatives shown?
a.
Children do not typically produce utterances containing question
words or negative markers until near school age.
b.
They are produced only after children have perfected auxiliary
verbs and verb endings.
c.
Negative and question words emerge during the holophrastic
stage.
d.
Initially children use a wh- word or negative markers (no, not)
during the early telegraphic period. Correct Answers Initially
, children use a wh- word or negative markers (no, not) during the
early telegraphic period.
104. Which of the following would be most likely to appear in a
2-year-old's spontaneous conversation?
a.
what, where, and who questions because these all have concrete
referents
b.
why, when, and how questions because the referents are abstract
c.
use of all the wh- question words, but incorrectly
d.
little use of wh- question words at all at this age Correct
Answers what, where, and who questions because these all have
concrete referents
105. You are listening as two young children, Yolanda and
Bruno, talk to their fathers at the playground. Yolanda points to
almost everything she sees and asks her father, "What that?"
Bruno can't seem to stop asking his father "Why?" Based on the
research into the development of question asking in young
children, what might you reasonably conclude about the
children's ages?
a.
Both children are the same age, because both are asking
questions that have concrete referents.
b.
Bruno is somewhat older than Yolanda, because his questions
have abstract referents.
c.
